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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

April 12, 2013Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Apr 12, 2013, 3:13 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 12, 2013, 3:13 PM MDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2013, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.

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: 1031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 12, 12:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 12:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 4:22 AM MDT, 10 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 12, 2:38 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
238 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2013

COZ090-122130-
YUMA COUNTY-
238 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...

AT 233 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OTIS...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AKRON...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 4033 10235 3957 10232 3957 10281 4000 10281
      4001 10280 4032 10280
TIME...MOT...LOC 2038Z 300DEG 24KT 4007 10296

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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 3:13 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
313 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2013

COZ091-122200-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-
313 PM MDT FRI APR 12 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 308 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COPE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF JOES...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3956 10316 3957 10315 3958 10290 3957 10280
      3957 10233 3922 10232 3921 10316
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 304DEG 24KT 3963 10290

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	54 min
Apr 12, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	28 min
Apr 12, 2:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	52 min
Apr 12, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	42 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.