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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Goodland, KS

May 5, 2007Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2007, 12:06 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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 5, 2007, 12:06 PM MDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2007, 12:30 PM MDT
In force: 24 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), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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 5, 12:38 PM MDT	HAIL 1	Wauneta, 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 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 051807
TORGLD
COC125-051830-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0052.070505T1806Z-070505T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1206 PM MDT SAT MAY 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...

* UNTIL 1230 PM MDT

* AT 1203 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ECKLEY...OR
  ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WAUNETA AROUND 1220 PM MDT...

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 254 AND 269.

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 900 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 4009 10254 4009 10232 4043 10210 4044 10257

$$

JRM

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 051818
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1217 PM MDT SAT MAY 5 2007

COC125-051830-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0052.000000T0000Z-070505T1830Z/
YUMA CO-
1217 PM MDT SAT MAY 5 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY...

AT 1213 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WAUNETA...OR ABOUT 43 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WAUNETA AROUND 1225 PM MDT...

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 253 AND 269.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

LAT...LON 4016 10247 4013 10230 4043 10210 4043 10248

$$
JRM

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, 10:26 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, 12:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	19 min

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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.