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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2004, 7:52 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min. 7 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, 2004, 7:52 PM MDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2004, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 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), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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, 8:15 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 10 N Vona, CO | |
| Jun 3, 8:22 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | Vona, CO | |
| Jun 3, 8:22 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 5 W Stratton, CO | PATROL CAR WINDSHIELD BROKEN |
| Jun 3, 8:24 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 5 W Stratton, CO | |
| Jun 3, 8:28 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | Vona, CO | |
| Jun 3, 8:32 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 5 W Stratton, CO | |
| Jun 3, 8:47 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | Stratton, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KGLD 040152
TORGLD
COC063-040245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
750 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
* UNTIL 845 PM MDT
* AT 748 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTH
OF SEIBERT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
SEIBERT AROUND 815 PM MDT...
6 MILES NORTH OF VONA AROUND 815 PM MDT...
A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR INDICATED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND COVER UP.
LAT...LON 3955 10290 3941 10297 3926 10293 3922 10256
3954 10258
$$
BURKEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 65 min |
| Jun 3, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 5:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.