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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 2:02 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 1, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 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.
305 WFUS53 KGLD 012002 TORGLD COC017-012045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 202 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 245 PM MDT * AT 202 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF ARAPAHOE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARAPAHOE AROUND 225 PM MDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...CHEYENNE WELLS...FIRSTVIEW AND KIT CARSON. 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 3903 10207 3904 10291 3865 10296 3864 10208 LOCKHART $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 1:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 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.