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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 1, 2012Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2012, 5:06 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 14 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 1, 2012, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2012, 5:20 PM MDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -533 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 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 Jul 1, 1:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 10:42 AM MDT, 6 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1042 AM MDT SUN JUL 1 2012

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-021430-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1042 AM MDT SUN JUL 1 2012 /1142 AM CDT SUN JUL 1 2012/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
AREA TODAY. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LIGHTNING CAUSED FIRES WILL
BE THE PRIMARY THREAT.

HOT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES
AROUND 100.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE COMING WEEK WITH
HIGHS AROUND 100 EXPECTED EACH AFTERNOON.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING HOURS THROUGH TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 5:06 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
506 PM MDT SUN JUL 1 2012

COZ091-092-012320-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-
506 PM MDT SUN JUL 1 2012

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND KIT
CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 504 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOYERO...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF AROYA...
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.  LIGHTNING STRIKES WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE SPOT FIRES.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3911 10317 3912 10316 3912 10301 3882 10301
      3882 10317
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 267DEG 14KT 3898 10322

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	57 min
Jun 30, 6:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	35 min
Jun 30, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Logan, Sheridan	67 min
Jun 30, 8:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	35 min
Jun 30, 11:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	57 min
Jul 1, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Lincoln	20 min
Jul 1, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	44 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.