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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2004, 5:40 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 65 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, 5:40 PM MDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
713 WFUS53 KGLD 092340 TORGLD COC063-100045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 540 PM MDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 537 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTH OF BETHUNE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STRATTON AND BETHUNE AROUND 625 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. LAT...LON 3903 10262 3903 10240 3952 10230 3949 10275 $$ 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, 5:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 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.