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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Goodland, KS

June 12, 2007Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 9:55 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2007, 9:55 AM MDT (15:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 10:44 AM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 9:32 AM MDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:32 AM MDT, 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
932 AM MDT TUE JUN 12 2007

.UPDATE...AREAS OF YUMA AND DUNDY COUNTIES RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN
LAST NIGHT...IN ADDITION SOME OF THE HEAVY RAIN IN CHASE COUNTY
WILL DRAIN INTO DUNDY AND HITCHCOCK COUNTIES. BASED ON THIS AND
THE LATEST QPF AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OUTLOOK...A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH WAS ISSUED THROUGH 18Z TOMORROW FOR YUMA...DUNDY...HITCHCOCK
...CHEYENNE(KS)...AND RAWLINS COUNTIES.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 240 AM MDT TUE JUN 12 2007/

DISCUSSION...MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE WHEN THE PRECIPITATION
THAT BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON WILL STOP...DEPENDING ON DURATION AND
INTENSITY...THIS COULD CAUSE HYRO PROBLEMS ONCE AGAIN. SECONDARY
PROBLEM WILL BE HOW COOL TO MAKE HIGH TEMPERATURES...ESPECIALLY ON
WEDNESDAY. SATELLITE SHOWING LITTLE CHANGE FROM YESTERDAY. VERY ACTIVE
FLOW OVER THE PACIFIC. SYSTEM DIGGING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND
THIS IS KICKING OUT SOUTHERN LOW INTO ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE COMING IN AHEAD OF THIS ON TOP OF ALREADY VERY
MOIST LOW LEVEL AIR MASS. BLOCKY AND RETROGRESSIVE PATTERN IN PLACE
FROM THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTRY INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC.

AT JET LEVEL...THE GFS/NAM ARE NOT FAR ENOUGH WEST WITH JET AXIS
OVER CALIFORNIA. THE UKMET IS NEARLY ON. THE NAM WAS DOING BETTER ON
THE JET SEGMENT ROUNDING THE BASE AND COMING UP THROUGH NEW MEXICO.
AT MID LEVELS...UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND SATELLITE WOULD SUPPORT THE
UKMET/ECMWF DOING SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE GFS.

MODEL TREND FROM YESTERDAY IS TO HAVE THE INCOMING LOW FURTHER
SOUTHWEST AND SLOWER. THIS MAKES SENSE DUE TO THE BLOCK IN PLACE
FURTHER EAST. WILL PREFER A BLEND OF THE MODELS...AND TRENDING
TOWARD WHICH IS COOLER...WETTER...AND SLOWER WITH THE PROGRESSION OF
THE UPPER SYSTEM. GENERAL CONSENSUS BY 12Z THURSDAY IS TO HAVE MID
LEVEL CIRCULATION OVER CENTRAL OR SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

TODAY/TONIGHT...BECAUSE OF LOW LEVEL JET IMPINGING ON MESOSCALE
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY OVER/NEAR OUR NORTHWEST PORTION OF OUR FORECAST
AREA...AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO PERSIST. ALSO THIS AREA
IS NEAR WESTERN SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE. BECAUSE OF MESOSCALE BOUNDARY
THAT WILL BE IN PLACE...CONVECTION ONGOING...AND NOT WANTING TO GET
TOO FANCY WITH THIS...WILL PUT POPS IN FOR THE ENTIRE DAY...ALTHOUGH
THE AFTERNOON WILL PROBABLY SEE THE MOST COVERAGE. LIFT AND
CONVERGENCE MAXIMIZE IN THE WEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS
EVENING AND THEN MOVE WEST...AND ORIENTED POPS THAT WAY. NAM
INDICATING A DRY SLOT THAT AM NOT SURE ABOUT. BUT TO ACCOUNT FOR
THIS NEIGHBORS THINKING...WILL HAVE LOWER POPS IN THE SOUTH.

AIR MASS WILL BE EXTREMELY MOIST THROUGH A DEEP LAYER. MAY HAVE
CLOUD COVER HINDER HEATING AND INSTABILITY. HOWEVER...LIFT WILL BE
STRONG. IF RADAR ESTIMATES ARE CORRECT...THE EXTREME NORTHERN
PORTION OF YUMA AND DUNDY RECEIVED A DECENT AMOUNT OF RAINFALL.
HOWEVER...SOME OF THIS COULD BE HAIL CONTAMINATED. HOWEVER...JUST TO
THE NORTH OF US THEY RECEIVED AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL. ALSO
STORM MOTIONS WILL BE MUCH FASTER TODAY...AND WILL HAVE TO DEPEND ON
REPEATED TRAINING. HPC HAS OUTLOOKED THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT FOR
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. THE HEAVIES RAINFALL LOOKS TO BE NORTH OF THE
AREA AT THIS TIME. AT THIS TIME...PLAN ON NOT ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH CONSIDERING THE ABOVE REASONING AND INPUT FROM SURROUNDING
OFFICES. HOWEVER...DAY SHIFT WILL NEED TO REASSESS THIS. WILL HAVE
HEAVY RAINFALL MENTIONED IN THE ZONES AND HWO.

WITH CLOUD COVER AND UNFAVORABLE WINDS...WENT NEAR TO SLIGHTLY
COOLER THAN GUIDANCE.

WEDNESDAY/WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THE RIGHT REAR QUADRANT AFFECTS MOST OF
THE FORECAST AREA...ESPECIALLY THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS...THROUGH THE
DAY. IF 12Z POSITION MENTIONED MENTIONED ABOVE IS REALIZED...THEN
POPS MAY HAVE TO BE RAISED MORE. HOWEVER...DID RAISE POPS FOR THIS
TIME PERIOD. THE BEST LIFT DOES LOOK TO REMAIN OVER THE EAST AND
SOUTHEAST HALF AND WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST POPS THERE. BELIEVE THE
HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT WILL BE TO THE EAST OF THE AREA BY THIS TIME.
COOLED OFF MAXES MORE...AND COULD NOT COOL OFF AS MUCH AS WANTED TO
KEEP WITHIN COLLABORATION. GUIDANCE HAS GONE COOLER WITH THE 2 METER
TEMPERATURE BEING CONSISTENT AND SIMILAR AND ALSO COOLER FOR THE LAST
TWO DAYS. MAXES MAY NEED TO LOWERED MORE.

THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT...RAISED POPS DURING THE DAY TO ACCOUNT FOR
SLOWER MOVEMENT. AGAIN IF SLOWEST MODEL SOLUTIONS ARE CORRECT...THEY
MAY NEED TO BE RAISED EVEN MORE. ALSO KEPT MAXES BELOW GUIDANCE.
PRECIPITATION LOOKS TO END...HOPEFULLY...DURING THE NIGHT. WINDS
WILL BE LIGHT AND WILL PROBABLY HAVE A LOT OF WET GROUND. SO
INSERTED SOME PATCHY FOG.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...NO CHANGES WERE MADE.

AVIATION...IFR CEILINGS AND POSSIBLE FOG WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS OVER
MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH THE MORNING. THEN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE CONDITIONS TO BE AT LEAST MVFR DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND NIGHTTIME HOURS.

&&

.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR KSZ001-002.

NE...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NEZ079-080.

CO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR COZ090.

&&

JOHNSON/BULLER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 4:52 AM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:46 AM MDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
946 AM MDT TUE JUN 12 2007

COZ091-121615-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-
946 AM MDT TUE JUN 12 2007

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 941 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF VONA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25
MPH. ANOTHER STORM LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF BURLINGTON WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...IT IS ALSO MOVING NORTH AT 25
MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 401 AND 446.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 171 AND 211.

JRM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:12 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan33 hr
Jun 12, 12:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas35 min
Jun 12, 1:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne3 hr
Jun 11, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma36 min
Jun 12, 10:42 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson48 min
Jun 12, 11:08 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDYuma67 min
Jun 12, 12:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDYuma6 hr
Jun 12, 2:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDundy6 hr

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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.