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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2013, 5:23 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2013, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2013, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 2:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 10:52 AM MDT, 6 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1052 AM MDT SAT JUN 15 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-161215- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1052 AM MDT SAT JUN 15 2013 /1152 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN COLORADO LATER THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FROM SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 30 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.