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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Goodland, KS

May 22, 2014Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2014, 5:29 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 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: May 22, 2014, 5:29 PM MDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cheyenne County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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 May 22, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 10:33 AM MDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1033 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231545-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1033 AM MDT THU MAY 22 2014 /1133 AM CDT THU MAY 22 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG
A FRONTAL ZONE STALLED OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND SOUTHWEST
KANSAS AND SPREAD NORTHEAST INCREASING IN COVERAGE...EVENTUALLY
OVERSPREADING THE TRI STATE REGION THIS EVENING AND LATE TONIGHT.
DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WILL BE POSSIBLE.
LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AT SOME
LOCATIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY FROM FRIDAY
THROUGH MONDAY AND AGAIN LATE NEXT WEEK. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:09 PM MDT, 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
509 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COZ092-222320-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-
509 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

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

AT 507 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 8 MILES NORTH OF KIT CARSON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3904 10284 3884 10264 3872 10283 3899 10304
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 226DEG 7KT 3887 10284

LUNDQUIST

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:22 PM MDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
522 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COZ092-222327-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-
522 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

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

AT 518 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 7 MILES NORTH OF KIT CARSON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3903 10284 3904 10276 3904 10272 3867 10253
      3862 10283 3893 10300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 238DEG 5KT 3886 10282

LUNDQUIST

Special weather statement, May 22, 5:25 PM MDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
525 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

COZ091-222335-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-
525 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2014

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

AT 522 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLAGLER...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3947 10316 3957 10304 3944 10273 3926 10294
      3940 10317 3944 10316
TIME...MOT...LOC 2325Z 219DEG 12KT 3940 10297

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	54 min
May 21, 6:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	36 min
May 21, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	66 min
May 21, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	37 min
May 21, 8:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan, Thomas	23 min
May 21, 9:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	28 min
May 21, 9:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan, Thomas	64 min
May 21, 9:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	53 min
May 21, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	65 min
May 22, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	11 min
May 22, 5:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	5 min
May 22, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	10 min
May 22, 5:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	10 min
May 22, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	20 min
May 22, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	51 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.