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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 29, 2014Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2014, 5:13 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 17 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 29, 2014, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2014, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 17 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 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 Jul 29, 1:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 1:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 10:35 AM MDT, 6 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1035 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301645-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1035 AM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014 /1135 AM CDT TUE JUL 29 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THEY SPREAD INTO
EASTERN COLORADO...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT.
INDIVIDUAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY...WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH
FLOODING. LOCATIONS WEST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 385 IN EASTERN COLORADO AND
SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 IN KANSAS HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR
SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE DIMINISHING WEDNESDAY
EVENING. THE PRIMARY HAZARD WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCALLY
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING.
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THESE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT...BUT RAINFALL
AND ANY FLOODING REPORTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 5:13 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
513 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

COZ091-292330-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-
513 PM MDT TUE JUL 29 2014

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

AT 510 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF VONA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3919 10295 3917 10259 3904 10260 3904 10285
      3904 10298
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 201DEG 9KT 3909 10275

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 1:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	GLD	Greeley, Wallace, Wichita	20 hr

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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.