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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2011, 6:20 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 25 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 2, 2011, 6:20 PM MDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2011, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2294 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
857 WFUS53 KGLD 030020 TORGLD COC125-030045- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0045.110703T0020Z-110703T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 620 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 615 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF ABARR...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ABARR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3990 10260 3966 10269 3971 10281 3993 10281 TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 288DEG 8KT 3983 10283 HAIL 1.25IN $$ FOLTZ
1 follow-up statement
012 WWUS53 KGLD 030029 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 629 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 2011 COC125-030045- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110703T0045Z/ YUMA CO- 629 PM MDT SAT JUL 2 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT... AT 628 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ABARR...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ABARR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3990 10260 3966 10269 3971 10281 3993 10281 TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 295DEG 12KT 3982 10279 HAIL 1.25IN $$ FOLTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 6:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 17 min |
| Jul 2, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 23 min |
| Jul 2, 7:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 10:05 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Yuma | 98 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.