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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2012, 10:21 AM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 24 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
- May 19, 2012, 10:21 AM MDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2012, 10:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
321 WWUS83 KGLD 191621 SPSGLD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1021 AM MDT SAT MAY 19 2012 COZ090-091-191645- KIT CARSON COUNTY-YUMA COUNTY- 1021 AM MDT SAT MAY 19 2012 ...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 1015 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BONNY RESERVOIR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF PEA SIZED HAIL WHICH COULD COVER THE GROUND TO A DEPTH OF SEVERAL INCHES. && LAT...LON 3985 10206 3944 10205 3938 10244 3968 10253 TIME...MOT...LOC 1621Z 245DEG 35KT 3954 10226 $$ 024
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 10:50 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| May 19, 11:22 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 53 min |
| May 19, 11:43 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| May 19, 12:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 57 min |
| May 19, 12:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 61 min |
| May 19, 1:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 59 min |
| May 19, 1:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 27 min |
| May 19, 2:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 22 min |
| May 19, 9:28 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| May 19, 9:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 33 min |
| May 19, 11:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 59 min |
| May 19, 12:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 39 min |
| May 19, 2:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 64 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.