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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2007, 1:37 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min. 4 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 24, 2007, 1:37 PM MDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2007, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 24, 1:49 PM MDT | TORNADO | 16 S Burlington, CO | NEAR HIGHWAY 385. BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. |
| Apr 24, 2:00 PM MDT | TORNADO | 8 N Arapahoe, CO | CONE SHAPED TORNADO. LASTED APPROX 19 MIN FROM 1955 TO 2014 UTC. |
| Apr 24, 2:01 PM MDT | TORNADO | 18 Nw Cheyenne Wells, CO | |
| Apr 24, 2:01 PM MDT | TORNADO | 26 Nw Cheyenne Wells, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 241940 TORGLD COC017-063-242030- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0040.070424T1937Z-070424T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 137 PM MDT TUE APR 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... SOUTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 230 PM MDT * AT 133 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TWO TORNADOES...ONE 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...AND A SECOND 6 MILES NORTH OF ARAPAHOE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR ARAPAHOE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY COULD PRODUCE A BRIEF TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY THROUGH 2 PM MDT. * TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 150 PM MDT RURAL NORTHEASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AROUND 150 PM MDT RURAL SOUTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 200 PM MDT RURAL EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 230 PM MDT THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 158 AND 181. IF YOU ARE AT SCHOOL OR WORK...MOVE QUICKLY TO THE BASEMENT... INTERIOR HALL...STAIRWELL...OR BATHROOM. DO NOT USE ELEVATORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER IN AUDITORIUMS OR GYMNASIUMS. LAT...LON 3893 10291 3892 10243 3884 10204 3918 10206 3923 10246 3923 10287 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 60 min |
| 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, 1:48 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.