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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2008, 6:40 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 6, 2008, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2008, 7:09 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 1390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 10:46 AM MDT, 7 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1046 AM MDT WED AUG 6 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-071230- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1046 AM MDT WED AUG 6 2008 /1146 AM CDT WED AUG 6 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT...SOME OF WHICH COULD EASILY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY BEFORE BECOMING MORE ISOLATED THAT NIGHT. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE AREA FROM FRIDAY INTO TUESDAY. AT THIS TIME...NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION. BULLER/BLM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 15 min |
| Aug 7, 12:55 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 1:21 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 7, 12:59 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:03 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 12 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 10 hr |
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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.