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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 2004, 7:00 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2004, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
031 WFUS53 KGLD 180100 TORGLD COC017-180200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 659 PM MDT THU JUN 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 655 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILD HORSE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KIT CARSON AROUND 725 PM MDT... FIRSTVIEW AROUND 800 PM MDT... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3901 10313 3863 10316 3864 10206 3902 10208 $$ RJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.