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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2004, 5:23 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 37 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 9, 2004, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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 9, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
594 WFUS53 KGLD 092323 TORGLD COC017-100000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 524 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 600 PM MDT * AT 520 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AROUND 540 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3883 10255 3883 10237 3903 10233 3903 10272 $$ MCGUIRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 65 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.