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Tornado Warning 90, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2008, 7:27 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 20 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 6, 2008, 7:27 PM MDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2008, 7:47 PM MDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 070127
TORGLD
COC063-070230-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0090.080707T0127Z-080707T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
727 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT
* AT 726 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY TO CENTRAL KIT
CARSON COUNTY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST
OF FLAGLER TO 9 MILES NORTH OF SEIBERT...MOVING NORTH AT 11 MPH.
* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 740 PM MDT
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3957 10278 3933 10276 3931 10317 3939 10317
3940 10315 3956 10316 3957 10313 3958 10281
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 192DEG 10KT 3940 10322 3942 10282
$$
BURTIS1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KGLD 070147
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
747 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008
COC063-070157-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-080707T0230Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
747 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER
APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3957 10278 3933 10276 3931 10317 3939 10317
3940 10315 3956 10316 3957 10313 3958 10281
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 192DEG 10KT 3945 10321 3947 10280
$$
BURTISWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 6, 5:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 5:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 503 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 .DISCUSSION... 200 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 COLD FRONT SLOWLY MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPARENT ON WATER VAPOR IN CENTRAL COLORADO WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT RESULTING IN GOOD CHANCES FOR SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT PRIMARILY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT A HEAVY RAIN THREAT...BUT WITH STORM MOTIONS GREATER THAN 10KTS AND NO SATURATED GROUND TO SPEAK OF DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL BE A WIDESPREAD CONCERN. NONETHELESS...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR POTENTIAL TRAINING GIVEN SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND STORM MOTIONS NEARLY PARALLEL TO IT. FRONT FORECAST TO BE DRAPED ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND BEST CHANCES WILL SHIFT TO THOSE AREAS FOR RENEWED CONVECTION. ACTIVITY WILL SETTLE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT WITH THE FRONT. WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW WILL FOLLOW FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. DIFFICULT TO FIND ANY PERTURBATIONS IN THAT FLOW AS QVECTORS BASICALLY FAVOR AREAS TO THE SOUTH FOR SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT. POST FRONTAL LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW MAY BE ENOUGH TO INITIATE STORMS ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS OF COLORADO TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH DAYTIME HEATING AS INDICATED BY THE NAM...SO LEFT SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE FAR WEST BUT OTHERWISE DECIDED TO KEEP MOST OF THE AREA DRY. .LONG TERM... (THURSDAY - SUNDAY) 200 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 PATTERN CHANGE WILL BE UNDERWAY AS TROUGH SETTLES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. AS THE PATTERN TRANSITIONS...SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL BE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A COUPLE OF DRY AND HOT DAYS TO START THE PERIOD. AS SOUTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED TOWARDS THE LATTER PART OF THE PERIOD THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WITH A DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE FETCH ORIGINATING IN THE BAJA REGION. 24 && .AVIATION... 502 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 FOR 00Z TAFS...TIMING AND DURATION OF TSRA WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN FOR KMCK AND KGLD TONIGHT AND MONDAY. CURRENT STORMS WILL LAST THROUGH MOST OF THE EVENING OR 06Z WITH BKN MID LEVEL CLOUDS OVERNIGHT. GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL EVEN WITH THUNDERSTORMS OTHER THAN MVFR UNDER HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS. A FEW STORMS EARLY THIS EVENING COULD CONTAIN SOME LARGE HAIL ESPECIALLY NEAR KMCK. AN UNFAVORABLE DOWNSLOPE WIND DIRECTION LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING SHOULD INHIBIT STRATUS DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH VFR PREVAILING AND MVFR UNDER SHOWERS. FS && && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && WFO GOODLAND
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 10:46 AM MDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1046 AM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-071645- 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 SUN JUL 6 2008 /1146 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. THIS FRONT WILL BE NEAR A WESKAN TO NORTON LINE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONT AFTER 2 PM MDT (3 PM CDT). LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY STORM THAT FORMS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WHICH WILL ALSO BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT A LINGERING NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST FRONTAL BOUNDARY COUPLED WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING ALONG IT WILL PROVIDE A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND POTENTIAL FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE SEVERAL PERIODS OF RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JRM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:26 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0330 PM TORNADO 14 E GOODLAND 39.35N 101.45W
07/06/2008 SHERMAN KS NWS EMPLOYEE
TORNADO WAS VISIBLE FROM THE NWS GOODLAND OFFICE FOR
APPROXIMATELY 5 MIN. CORRECTED FOR LOCATION.
&&
SJOHNSONSpecial weather statement, Jul 6, 4:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 NEZ080-062315- HITCHCOCK- 542 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 541 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAX...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 11 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:14 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 514 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 NEZ080-062345- HITCHCOCK- 614 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 608 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR STRATTON NE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 19 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE.
Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
535 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0527 PM FLASH FLOOD 12 N LEVANT 39.55N 101.19W
07/06/2008 THOMAS KS TRAINED SPOTTER
WATER 1 FOOT DEEP IS RUNNING OVER COUNTY ROAD 10. WATER
IS DRAINING INTO THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE SAPPA CREEK.
&&
SJOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 6, 6:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
601 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0550 PM TSTM WND GST 11 N AROYA 39.01N 103.13W
07/06/2008 M69 MPH CHEYENNE CO PUBLIC
&&
SJOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 6, 6:46 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
646 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0635 PM TSTM WND GST BURLINGTON 39.31N 102.27W
07/06/2008 E59 MPH KIT CARSON CO ASOS
&&
SJOHNSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 6:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.