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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

June 1, 2003Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 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, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 45 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), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

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The text

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

752 
WFUS53 KGLD 012045
TORGLD
COC017-012130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
245 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 330 PM MDT

* AT 245 PM MDT...A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WAS REPORTED
  FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARAPAHOE TO 21 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE
  WELLS...OR FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS TO 21 MILES
  SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...FIRSTVIEW.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

LAT...LON 3905 10212 3903 10247 3902 10272 3874 10266
          3862 10260 3863 10207 3897 10206

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, 2:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.