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Tornado Warning 80, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2007, 5:44 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 3, 2007, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 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 032344 TORGLD COC017-063-040045- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0080.070703T2344Z-070704T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 544 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... SOUTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 538 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 24 MILES NORTHEAST OF AROYA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SEIBERT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 600 PM MDT RURAL SOUTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 620 PM MDT RURAL NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AROUND 630 PM MDT THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 391 AND 416. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BRIEF TORNADOES. 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 3929 10266 3929 10316 3883 10316 3883 10263 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 040045 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 645 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 COC017-063-040055- /O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0080.000000T0000Z-070704T0045Z/ CHEYENNE CO-KIT CARSON CO- 645 PM MDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN KIT CARSON AND NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 645 PM MDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 391 AND 416. THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN GOODLAND. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. LAT...LON 3929 10266 3929 10316 3883 10316 3883 10263 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 4:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 67 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.