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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2013, 9:48 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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 23, 2013, 9:48 PM MDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2013, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 23, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 23, 7:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 7:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 3:04 PM MDT, 6 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 304 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-241630- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 304 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 2013 /404 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AS A STRONG WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH FROM WEST TO EAST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON TO THE WEST AND CROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA MAINLY BETWEEN 6 PM AND MIDNIGHT. ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY DEVELOP TO THE EAST. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE GENERALLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM IDALIA COLORADO TO COLBY AND HILL CITY KANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ON MONDAY...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM YUMA AND WRAY COLORADO TO ATWOOD...HOXIE AND GOVE KANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. WEST OF THIS LINE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE AS SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
715 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 2013
KSZ029-240145-
GOVE-
815 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF QUINTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.
LOCATIONS AND TIMES OF ARRIVAL INCLUDE...
QUINTER BY 830 PM CDT...
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3885 10022 3893 10042 3913 10034 3913 10014
3893 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 209DEG 24KT 3897 10026
LOCKHARTSpecial weather statement, Jun 23, 9:29 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
929 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 2013
COZ092-240430-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-
929 PM MDT SUN JUN 23 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
AT 927 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF FIRSTVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
LOCATIONS AND TIMES OF ARRIVAL INCLUDE...
CHEYENNE WELLS BY 1000 PM MDT...
ARAPAHOE BY 1020 PM MDT...
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3869 10266 3905 10225 3904 10222 3889 10204
3887 10205 3861 10243 3861 10257
TIME...MOT...LOC 0329Z 226DEG 22KT 3869 10250
LOCKHARTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 10:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 11:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Jun 23, 11:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 12:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 3:30 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 9:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 9:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 10:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 10:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 12:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 56 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.