Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2001, 5:37 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2001, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2001, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 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 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 5:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Seibert, CO | Nearby fields damaged from storm. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
336 WFUS53 KGLD 012337 TORGLD COC063-020015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 537 PM MDT WED AUG 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 537 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF FLAGLER...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW $$ LAT...LON 3954 10306 3932 10309 3934 10215 3955 10216 COLEMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.