Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2002, 11:03 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2002, 11:03 PM MDT (05:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:05 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 24, 11:15 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Cope, CO | A severe thunderstorm, producing very large hail and damaging winds, pummeled sections of Logan, Phillips and Washington Counties. Several homes and vehicles were damaged. In addition, several farmers suffered extensive crop damage. |
| Aug 24, 11:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Joes, CO |
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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 740 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
357 WFUS53 KGLD 250503 TORGLD COC125-250545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1102 PM MDT SAT AUG 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 1145 PM MDT * AT 1102 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF JOES...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLAGLER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KIRK AROUND 1110 PM MDT VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OF ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. && LAT...LON 3987 10280 3968 10299 3958 10279 3958 10252
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 8:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 11:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 3:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 5:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
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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.