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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Goodland, KS

July 12, 2009Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2009, 4:43 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 12, 2009, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2009, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
47 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 22:46 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2009-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2009-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 12, 1:35 PM MDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 1:35 PM MDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
135 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

.DISCUSSION...
135 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

ACTIVE WEATHER LOOKS TO CONTINUE TONIGHT AS ANOTHER ROUND OF
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN COLORADO AND MOVE EAST
ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OFF THE FRONT RANGE. ONE MAIN CONCERN
LOOKS TO BE THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN. OVER
THE PAST FEW EVENINGS...AROUND 1.75-2.00 OF RAINFALL HAS BEEN
REPORTED EACH NIGHT OVER CHEYENNE COUNTY CO WITH LESSER AMOUNTS
ELSEWHERE. WILL HAVE TO WATCH AGAIN TONIGHT FOR FLASH FLOODING AS
PWATS AT 00Z ARE AROUND 1.51 --OVER 150 PERCENT OF NORMAL.

GFS/NAM HAVE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS WHERE THE HIGHEST PRECIPITATION
AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR. GFS KEEPS PRECIP ALONG AND NORTH OF I-70 WHILE
THE NAM PULLS IT SOUTH ALONG THE CO/KS BORDER. WILL CONTINUE MONITOR
CI AND STORM MOTION AS WELL AS NEWEST MODEL RUNS TO GET A HANDLE
WHERE HIGHEST PRECIP AMOUNTS WILL OCCUR AND MAKE FURTHER
ADJUSTMENTS.

MONDAY LOOKS TO BE THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AS
TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO WARM INTO THE MIDDLE UPPER 90S.
MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY QUASI-ZONAL FLOW DAMPENS THE SURFACE
HIGH AND NORTHWEST FLOW BRINGS RELIEF TO THE HIGH PLAINS.

PREVIOUS FORECAST DESIGNED THE EXTENDED FORECAST WELL WITH A
SERIES OF COLD FRONTS PUSHING THROUGH THE AREA GIVING WAY TO
COOLER TEMPERATURES ALONG WITH AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS.
EXPECT HIGH TEMPERATURES TO WARM INTO THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S WITH
LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. BURTIS

&&

.AVIATION...
1156 AM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

FOR THE 18Z TAF...WILL SEE GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH THE
TAF PERIOD. CONVECTION WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVER EASTERN
COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND GRADUALLY TRANSLATE EASTWARD INTO
NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. HAVE INSERTED VCTS FOR
BOTH TERMINALS BASED ON HIGHEST CONFIDENCE IN TIMING OF
CONVECTION. CERTAINLY COULD SEE IFR CONDITIONS PERIODICALLY BUT
LOW TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONFIDENCE WILL PRECLUDE PREVAILING
PRECIP GROUP FOR THIS ISSUANCE. TIMING SHOULD BECOME MORE CLEAR
FOR THE 00Z ISSUANCE.

FOLTZ
&&

.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.
NE...NONE.
CO...NONE.
&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 10:46 AM MDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1046 AM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-131215-
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 12 2009 /1146 AM CDT SUN JUL 12 2009/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN
EASTERN COLORADO MOVING EAST INTO WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.
THE GREATEST THREAT SHOULD REMAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 40.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. STRONG WINDS AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 10:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:31 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
431 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

COZ090-091-122300-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-YUMA COUNTY-
431 PM MDT SUN JUL 12 2009

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND
YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 430 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COPE...OR 8 MILES WEST OF JOES...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

MENTZER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 9:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace54 min
Jul 11, 10:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace33 min
Jul 11, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas39 min
Jul 11, 10:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas51 min
Jul 11, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson59 min
Jul 11, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 min
Jul 11, 8:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson3 hr
Jul 11, 8:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson63 min
Jul 11, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Jul 12, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson46 min
Jul 12, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma67 min
Jul 12, 5:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.