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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

May 12, 2004Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2004, 5:35 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min. 3 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: May 12, 2004, 5:35 PM MDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2004, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cheyenne County, CO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 12, 5:45 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	9 Se Kit Carson, CO
May 12, 5:54 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	9 Se Kit Carson, CO	HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
May 12, 6:13 PM MDT	TORNADO	5 Sw Cheyenne Wells, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 12, 5:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

257 
WFUS53 KGLD 122335
TORGLD
COC017-130015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
535 PM MDT WED MAY 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 532 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FIRSTVIEW...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE
  WELLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FIRSTVIEW BY 605 PM MDT
  6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS BY 615 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3863 10293 3853 10277 3875 10219 3896 10247

MCGUIRE

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 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.