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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2012, 5:35 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 10 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
- Jun 28, 2012, 5:35 PM MDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2012, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 3:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:00 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:01 AM MDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1101 AM MDT THU JUN 28 2012 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291645- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1101 AM MDT THU JUN 28 2012 /1201 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT VERY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TODAY WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE UPPER 90S TO AROUND 110 DEGREES. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING....BRINGING THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. WITH THE CURRENT FIRE DANGER...LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR FIRES EVEN THOUGH RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL MEET OR EXCEED 100 DEGREES ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE COMING WEEK. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND POTENTIAL FOR LIGHTNING CAUSED FIRES WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:35 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 535 PM MDT THU JUN 28 2012 COZ090-282345- YUMA COUNTY- 535 PM MDT THU JUN 28 2012 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 530 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ABARR TO JOES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WINDS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. && LAT...LON 3996 10280 4001 10251 3957 10248 3957 10280 TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 243DEG 3KT 3987 10267 3966 10265 LUNDQUIST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 7:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 7:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 7:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 8:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 3:29 AM MDT | Excessive Heat Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 40 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 6:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 15 min |
| Jun 27, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 43 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Colorado, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.