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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Goodland, KS

May 4, 2007Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2007, 8:59 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 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: May 4, 2007, 8:59 PM MDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2007, 9:30 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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
May 4, 5:36 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 761 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 050259
TORGLD
COC063-050330-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0046.070505T0259Z-070505T0330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
859 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

*

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 050317
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
915 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007

COC063-050330-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0046.000000T0000Z-070505T0330Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
915 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY...

AT 915 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF
FLAGLER...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF LIMON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

RADAR ALSO INDICATED ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 
WAS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST KIT CARSON COUNTY ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF 
FLAGLER. 

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.

A TORNADO WARNING BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION
HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND GET TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE
BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3920 10316 3927 10290 3956 10279 3956 10314

$$
MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	58 min
May 4, 9:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	33 min
May 4, 9:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
May 4, 10:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	34 min
May 4, 10:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min
May 4, 11:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	59 min
May 5, 12:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	24 min
May 5, 12:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	19 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.