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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Goodland, KS

July 1, 2008Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2008, 5:05 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2008, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2008, 5:37 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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 2008-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2008-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-553 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 3:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 10:16 AM MDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1016 AM MDT TUE JUL 1 2008

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-021215-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1016 AM MDT TUE JUL 1 2008 /1116 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

AN ISOLATED HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE NEAR THE KANSAS AND COLORADO STATE LINE
AFTER 3 PM MDT. GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS.

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO THE EVENING HOURS...HOWEVER
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES OVER THE REGION. SOME OF
THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE
THROUGH THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.