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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Goodland, KS

October 10, 2013Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2013, 5:24 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 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: Oct 10, 2013, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2013, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 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 23:25 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 10, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 10, 5:22 PM MDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 5:22 PM MDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 5:13 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
513 PM MDT THU OCT 10 2013

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-111215-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
513 PM MDT THU OCT 10 2013 /613 PM CDT THU OCT 10 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING WITH
GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH EXPECTED. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL PRODUCE BLOWING
DUST WHICH COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO HALF MILE AT SOME
LOCATIONS.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING
FROM THE WEST...FORMING INTO A LINE OF STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST
THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE THIS EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT.
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD QUICKLY SHIFT EAST OF THE AREA AFTER
MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM LATE SUNDAY
AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY NIGHT. IT WILL BE POSSIBLE THAT A FEW OF
THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED. PLEASE REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE
OR WIND GUSTS TO OUR OFFICE USING OUR FACEBOOK OR TWITTER PAGE.
YOU CAN ALSO CALL OUR OFFICE AT EIGHT HUNDRED TWO SEVEN TWO
SEVENTY EIGHT ELEVEN.

JTL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 10, 2:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 3:24 PM MDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 3:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 3:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 4:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 10, 4:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 8:13 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	25 hr
Oct 10, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	41 min
Oct 10, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	66 min
Oct 10, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	19 min
Oct 10, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	55 min
Oct 10, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.