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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Goodland, KS

July 4, 2005Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2005, 6:40 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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 4, 2005, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2005, 7:18 PM MDT
In force: 38 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), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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.

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 4, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 050042
TORGLD
COC125-050130-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0040.050705T0040Z-050705T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
640 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 636 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF IDALIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  IDALIA BY 650 PM MDT...
  BONNY RESERVOIR BY 710 PM MDT...
  HALE BY 715 PM MDT...

THE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF YUMA APPEARS TO NO LONGER BE 
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...BUT MAY STILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 
THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST 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 3987 10241 3965 10248 3958 10237 3958 10205       3979 
10205

$$

KILLINGSWORTH

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 050102
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
702 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

COC125-050130-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050705T0130Z/
YUMA CO-
702 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR YUMA COUNTY...

AT 657 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HALE...MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING 
WINDS RESULTING IN AREAS OF NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DIRT 
ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY. USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST 
TRAVEL AND BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITY.

LAT...LON 3979 10206 3978 10228 3957 10233 3957 10206

$$

KILLINGSWORTH

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 050118
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
717 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

COC125-050127-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050705T0130Z/
YUMA CO-
717 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR YUMA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER
APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER.

WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DIRT AND REDUCED 
VISIBILITY WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY 
THROUGH ABOUT 745 PM MDT. USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL AND 
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. 

LAT...LON 3979 10206 3978 10228 3957 10233 3957 10206

$$

KILLINGSWORTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	44 min
Jul 5, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	55 min
Jul 5, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 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.