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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 2001Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2001, 5:12 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2001, 5:12 PM MDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2001, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-384 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

639 
WFUS53 KGLD 032312
TORGLD
COC063-040000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
512 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 512 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BETHUNE AROUND 545 PM MDT
  BURLINGTON AROUND 555 PM MDT

$$

LAT...LON 3958 10243 3917 10260 3919 10207 3956 10206

VPAPOL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma48 min
Jul 2, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson49 min
Jul 2, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma45 min
Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma38 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.