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Tornado Warning 80, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 2007Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 3, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 554 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -116 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 3:26 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson64 min
Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson55 min
Jul 3, 4:24 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson66 min
Jul 3, 4:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson64 min
Jul 3, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne67 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.