Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2007, 7:30 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Apr 23, 2007, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:31 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 N Burlington, CO | |
| Apr 23, 7:41 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 7 N Burlington, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGLD 240130 SVRGLD COC063-125-240230- /O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0021.070424T0130Z-070424T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 730 PM MDT MON APR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 727 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BURLINGTON...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BONNY RESERVOIR AROUND 805 PM MDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 439 AND 446. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 187 AND 211. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3934 10247 3924 10214 3959 10205 3965 10234 $$ KRAUSE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 240144 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 744 PM MDT MON APR 23 2007 COC063-125-240230- /O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070424T0230Z/ KIT CARSON CO-YUMA CO- 744 PM MDT MON APR 23 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN YUMA AND NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTIES... AT 742 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BONNY RESERVOIR... OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BONNY RESERVOIR AROUND 755 PM MDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 439 AND 446. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 187 AND 211. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3934 10247 3924 10214 3959 10205 3965 10234 $$ KRAUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 8:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 8:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 9:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 9:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 9:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 10:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 11:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Apr 24, 9:19 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 10:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 11:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 12:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 12:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 1:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 1:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 2:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 3:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 4:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 4:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.