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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 19, 2014Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2014, 6:57 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 2014, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2014, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.

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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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 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 Aug 19, 5:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 5:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 10:45 AM MDT, 8 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1045 AM MDT TUE AUG 19 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-200930-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1045 AM MDT TUE AUG 19 2014

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WILL BE ALONG A NORTHWARD MOVING WARM FRONT NORTH OF
HIGHWAY 24 WHERE LARGE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER IS
POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP.
STORM ACTIVITY WILL DECLINE TOWARD LATE EVENING AS THE FRONT
MOVES NORTH OF THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING AS WELL THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE
PRIMARY THREATS.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM
FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED PRIMARILY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 24
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS THROUGH
SOCIAL MEDIA OR OVER THE PHONE ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

JTL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:25 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
425 PM MDT TUE AUG 19 2014

KSZ013-014-027-028-192315-
WALLACE KS-LOGAN KS-THOMAS KS-SHERMAN KS-
425 PM MDT TUE AUG 19 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SHERMAN...
SOUTHWESTERN THOMAS...NORTHWESTERN LOGAN AND NORTHEASTERN WALLACE
COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM MDT/615 PM CDT/...

AT 425 PM MDT /525 PM CDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALLACE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINONA.

LAT...LON 3890 10137 3892 10165 3931 10147 3922 10103
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 199DEG 19KT 3902 10145

JN

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 6:57 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	46 min
Aug 20, 3:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	50 min
Aug 20, 4:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins	48 min
Aug 20, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	44 min
Aug 19, 7:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	43 min
Aug 19, 7:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	50 min
Aug 20, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	50 min
Aug 20, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	20 min

Nearby

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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.