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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 28, 2012Yuma County, Colorado

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2012-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 502 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2012-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 7:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman44 min
Jun 27, 7:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman41 min
Jun 27, 7:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman34 min
Jun 27, 7:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan, Thomas47 min
Jun 27, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan, Thomas44 min
Jun 28, 3:29 AM MDTExcessive Heat WarningGLDGraham, Norton40 hr
Jun 27, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne41 min
Jun 27, 6:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma48 min
Jun 28, 5:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma15 min
Jun 27, 7:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy43 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.