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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Goodland, KS

September 14, 2014Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 2014, 5:41 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 14, 2014, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2014, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.75 in

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 14, 5:45 PM MDT	HAIL 1.5	5 Ssw Clarkville, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

029 
WFUS53 KGLD 142341
TORGLD
COC125-150015-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0033.140914T2341Z-140915T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
541 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT
    
* AT 541 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF LONE STAR...OR 15 MILES NORTH
  OF YUMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO 
           ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS 
           WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS 
           LIKELY. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLARKVILLE.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 256 AND 257.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A
VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 10259 4025 10221 4013 10263 4023 10279
      4044 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 324DEG 25KT 4034 10266 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.75IN

$$

DR

1 follow-up statement

329 
WWUS53 KGLD 150000
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
600 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 2014

COC125-150008-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-140915T0015Z/
YUMA CO-
600 PM MDT SUN SEP 14 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4044 10259 4025 10221 4013 10263 4023 10279
      4044 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 324DEG 25KT 4024 10257 

$$

DR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.