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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

June 3, 2002Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2002, 4:36 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 3, 2002, 4:36 PM MDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2002, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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
Jun 3, 4:40 PM MDT	Hail 1	Seibert, CO
Jun 3, 4:48 PM MDT	Hail 1	Seibert, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 032236
TORGLD
COC063-032315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
436 PM MDT MON JUN 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM MDT

* AT 436 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SEIBERT...OR ABOUT 34 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF TORNADOES IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VONA AROUND 445 PM MDT
  STRATTON AROUND 500 PM MDT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...BETHUNE AND FLAGLER.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

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 3946 10343 3921 10349 3906 10305 3905 10250
          3947 10235

BULLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	61 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	12 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.