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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 2005Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2005, 7:37 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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: Jul 25, 2005, 7:37 PM MDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2005, 8:06 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 260137
SVRGLD
COC125-260200-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0252.050726T0137Z-050726T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
737 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 733 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  HALE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BONNY
  RESERVOIR.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 3995 10244 3957 10244 3958 10207 3994 10207

$$

DLF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 260206
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
805 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005

COC125-260215-
/O.EXP.KGLD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-050726T0200Z/
YUMA CO-
805 PM MDT MON JUL 25 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YUMA COUNTY EXPIRED AT 800 PM
MDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING IS MOVING FROM 
EXTREME SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY INTO WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3995 10244 3957 10244 3958 10207 3994 10207

$$

DLF

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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.