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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 4, 2014, 3:13 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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
- Jul 4, 2014, 3:13 PM MDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2014, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 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 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 Jul 4, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 153 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 2014 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-051830- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 153 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 2014 /253 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 2014/ 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 DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA...WITH THE BEST STORM COVERAGE NORTH OF A TRIBUNE TO OBERLIN LINE. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW WINDS. SEVERE STORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JTL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 3:13 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
313 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 2014
COZ090-042145-
YUMA COUNTY-
313 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 2014
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO...
AT 309 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR YUMA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.
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LAT...LON 4031 10251 4009 10248 4008 10280 4021 10280
4027 10280
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 264DEG 10KT 4018 10275
024The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 35 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.