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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 16 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 5, 2014, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 7:16 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 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 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 5, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 5, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 11:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 11:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 3:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 4:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman and 3 more | 14 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 6:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 6:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 22 min |
| Jun 5, 10:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 3:02 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 18 min |
| Jun 6, 3:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 3:51 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 14 min |
| Jun 6, 4:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 4:57 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 18 min |
| Jun 6, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 4:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 5:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 2:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 2:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 54 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.