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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2007, 10:26 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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
- May 4, 2007, 10:26 PM MDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2007, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:35 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | Yuma, CO | |
| May 4, 10:35 PM MDT | HAIL 1.25 | Yuma, CO | |
| May 4, 10:35 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 S Yuma, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 5:36 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 050427 TORGLD COC125-050500- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0049.070505T0426Z-070505T0500Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1026 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 1100 PM MDT * AT 1025 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEARTSTRONG...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON... MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CLARKVILLE AROUND 1055 PM MDT... THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 181 AND 197. 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. 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 3956 10281 3957 10248 4044 10245 4043 10279 $$ MENTZER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 050439 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1038 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007 COC125-050500- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-070505T0500Z/ YUMA CO- 1038 PM MDT FRI MAY 4 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR WESTERN YUMA COUNTY... AT 1038 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF ABARR...OR ABOUT 37 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ABARR AROUND 1045 PM MDT... HEARTSTRONG AROUND 1100 PM MDT... THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 181 AND 197. LAT...LON 3956 10281 3957 10248 4044 10245 4043 10279 $$ 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, 8:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 31 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, 10:29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.