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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2012, 6:06 PM MDT for Yuma 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
- Aug 1, 2012, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 6:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272
WWUS83 KGLD 020006
SPSGLD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
606 PM MDT WED AUG 1 2012
COZ090-091-020020-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-YUMA COUNTY-
606 PM MDT WED AUG 1 2012
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL
COLORADO AND SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
AT 602 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM HEARTSTRONG TO JOES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WINDS GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3957 10285 3958 10281 3966 10281 3999 10266
3996 10215 3944 10242 3953 10287
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 293DEG 37KT 3992 10255 3959 10270
$$
LUNDQUISTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 10:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 11 min |
| Aug 1, 10:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 10:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 2:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 2:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 3:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 3:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| Aug 2, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 6:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 23 min |
| Aug 1, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 7:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 8:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 8 min |
| Aug 1, 8:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 25 min |
| Aug 1, 9:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 26 min |
Nearby
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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.