Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2009, 7:26 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 2009, 7:26 PM MDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2009, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:59 PM MDT | HAIL 0.88 | 16 Nne Seibert, CO | ESTIMATED 40 MPH WIND GUSTS ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KGLD 090126
SVRGLD
COC063-125-090230-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0252.090909T0126Z-090909T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
726 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
SOUTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT
* AT 724 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16
MILES WEST OF JOES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ABARR AROUND 740 PM MDT...
JOES AROUND 800 PM MDT...
KIRK AROUND 810 PM MDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
&&
LAT...LON 3956 10314 3957 10313 3957 10281 3985 10281
3986 10280 3981 10234 3932 10244 3942 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 297DEG 21KT 3965 10297
$$
FLOYD2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KGLD 090147
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
747 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
COC063-125-090230-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-090909T0230Z/
KIT CARSON CO-YUMA CO-
747 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN YUMA AND NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTIES...
AT 745 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
JOES AROUND 800 PM MDT...
KIRK AROUND 810 PM MDT...
LAT...LON 3956 10314 3957 10313 3957 10281 3985 10281
3986 10280 3981 10234 3932 10244 3942 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 297DEG 21KT 3959 10282
$$
FLOYD000
WWUS53 KGLD 090215
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
815 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
COC125-090225-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-090909T0230Z/
YUMA CO-
815 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN YUMA
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3956 10314 3957 10313 3956 10281 3956 10264
3956 10239 3932 10244 3942 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 0215Z 317DEG 22KT 3942 10271
$$
COC063-090230-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-090909T0230Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
815 PM MDT TUE SEP 8 2009
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM MDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY...
AT 811 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF
VONA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 830 PM MDT
LAT...LON 3956 10314 3957 10313 3956 10281 3956 10264
3956 10239 3932 10244 3942 10314
TIME...MOT...LOC 0215Z 317DEG 22KT 3942 10271
$$
FLOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Sep 8, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 60 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.