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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Goodland, KS

July 1, 2005Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 2005, 2:36 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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: Jul 1, 2005, 2:36 PM MDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2005, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 39 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), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 1, 3:03 PM MDT	HAIL 0.88	19 N Eckley, 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
Jul 1, 1:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -263 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 012037
TORGLD
COC125-012115-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0036.050701T2036Z-050701T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
236 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 233 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  CLARKVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE        
  TORNADO...GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 75 MPH WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY THROUGH 250 PM MDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN 
EFFECT FOR YUMA COUNTY.

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.

LAT...LON 3993 10227 4044 10227 4043 10278 3992 10280

$$

JRM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	42 min
Jul 1, 2:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	41 min
Jul 1, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	18 min
Jul 1, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	24 min
Jul 1, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	50 min
Jul 1, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.