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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2012, 8:17 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 7 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 22, 2012, 8:17 PM MDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2012, 8:24 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
362
WFUS53 KGLD 230217
TORGLD
COC125-230245-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0012.120623T0217Z-120623T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
817 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
* UNTIL 845 PM MDT
* AT 813 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF WAUNETA...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAUNETA AND ALVIN.
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 249 AND 269.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4044 10204 4036 10204 4011 10209 4025 10259
4044 10251 4045 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0217Z 285DEG 15KT 4033 10238
HAIL 1.75IN
$$
FOLTZ1 follow-up statement
770
WWUS53 KGLD 230224
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
824 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012
COC125-230234-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120623T0245Z/
YUMA CO-
824 PM MDT FRI JUN 22 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THIS WARNING HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE WARNING VALID UNTIL 900 PM
MDT.
LAT...LON 4044 10204 4036 10204 4011 10209 4025 10259
4044 10251 4045 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0224Z 285DEG 15KT 4032 10234
$$
FOLTZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Phillips | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 8:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 16 min |
| Jun 22, 8:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 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.