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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 298, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2004, 2:44 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2004, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 31, 2:02 PM MDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:02 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1027 AM MDT TUE AUG 31 2004 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011626- CHEYENNE KS-CHEYENNE CO-DECATUR KS-DUNDY NE-GOVE KS-GRAHAM KS- GREELEY KS-HITCHCOCK NE-KIT CARSON CO-LOGAN KS-NORTON KS-RAWLINS KS- RED WILLOW NE-SHERIDAN KS-SHERMAN KS-THOMAS KS-WALLACE KS-WICHITA KS- YUMA CO- 1027 AM MDT TUE AUG 31 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT RANGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND SLOWLY MOVE ONTO PORTIONS OF THE HIGH PLAINS INTO THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MAINLY AFFECT AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A FLAGLER COLORADO TO ST. FRANCIS KANSAS TO TRENTON NEBRASKA LINE. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...ANY THUDNERSTORMS WILL POSE A THREAT OF DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE TRI-STATE REGION ON FRIDAY SERVING AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LAMMERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 31, 2:03 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 68 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.