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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2013, 1:21 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 14 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
- May 27, 2013, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2013, 1:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 4442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 May 27, 11:53 AM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 11:53 AM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 12:44 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1244 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-281545- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1244 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013 /144 PM CDT MON MAY 27 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 WILL DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE HILL CITY TO GOVE AREA DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST THREAT WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS DURING THE EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. ONCE AGAIN A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.. JTL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:25 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 925 AM MDT MON MAY 27 2013 NEZ081-271730- RED WILLOW- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MCCOOK 1025 AM CDT MON MAY 27 2013 FOG WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RED WILLOW COUNTY...WITH VISIBILITIES DROPPING TO HALF A MILE AT TIMES...FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE DISSIPATING DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON. JTL
Special weather statement, May 27, 12:51 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1251 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013
COZ090-271905-
YUMA COUNTY-
1251 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
AT 1245 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COPE...OR 7 MILES WEST OF JOES...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3971 10281 3974 10274 3961 10259 3956 10267
3957 10268 3957 10281 3968 10281
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 231DEG 4KT 3962 10279
LUNDQUISTSpecial weather statement, May 27, 1:21 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
121 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013
COZ090-091-271935-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-YUMA COUNTY-
121 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND
YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
AT 119 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF COPE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
JOES...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING
AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE A VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.
&&
LAT...LON 3957 10281 3965 10281 3967 10261 3947 10258
3950 10291 3958 10292
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 262DEG 9KT 3956 10279
LUNDQUISTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| May 27, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 33 min |
| May 27, 12:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 14 min |
| May 27, 1:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 41 min |
| May 27, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| May 27, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| May 27, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 63 min |
| May 27, 3:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| May 27, 3:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| May 27, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 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.