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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Goodland, KS

June 14, 2015Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2015, 1:56 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 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 14, 2015, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2015, 2:38 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 2067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 11:52 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:52 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 12:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1228 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-151830-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1228 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A STALLED FRONT OVER NORTHWEST
KIT CARSON...MOST OF YUMA AND WESTERN DUNDY COUNTIES. ANY OF THESE
STORMS MAY PRODUCE A WEAK SHORT-LIVED TORNADO THIS AFTERNOON. IN
ADDITION ANY...STORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL MOVE
VERY SLOWLY AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

FROM MONDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY
NIGHT...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS CAN BE SENT TO OUR OFFICE BY PHONE OR
THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.

JTL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 12:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1215 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

COZ090-091-NEZ079-142015-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-DUNDY-
1215 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

...BRIEF TORNADOES POSSIBLE...

CONDITIONS FAVOR THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF TORNADOES AS STORMS DEVELOP
ALONG A STALLED FRONT OVER NORTHWEST KIT CARSON...MOST OF YUMA AND
WESTERN DUNDY COUNTIES.  HOWEVER AT THIS TIME IT IS UNKNOWN WHICH IF
ANY STORM WOULD PRODUCE A TORNADO. ANY TORNADOES WHICH DEVELOP ARE
EXPECTED TO POSE A LIMITED THREAT AND ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH
WEAKER STORMS AND NOT SEEN ON RADAR.

IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO ENSURE YOUR
SAFETY...THEN REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 785-899-
7119. LOCAL SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
STORMS IN THEIR AREA.

LAT...LON 4044 10205 4035 10205 4035 10165 3904 10303
      3904 10316 3956 10315 3957 10280 4007 10279
      4044 10247
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 027DEG 3KT 3943 10311

LUNDQUIST

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:48 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
148 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

COZ090-142000-
YUMA COUNTY CO-
148 PM MDT SUN JUN 14 2015

AT 147 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF HOLYOKE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.  TRAINED SPOTTERS NEAR
HOLYOKE HAVE REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM.  TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL YUMA
COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 265 AND 269.

LAT...LON 4044 10223 4036 10224 4041 10261 4044 10257
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 039DEG 20KT 4047 10238

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 6:29 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 14, 3:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	3 hr
Jun 14, 12:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	2 hr
Jun 14, 1:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	12 min
Jun 14, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	11 min
Jun 14, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	46 min
Jun 14, 3:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	65 min
Jun 14, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	24 min
Jun 14, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	18 min
Jun 14, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	32 min
Jun 14, 4:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	24 min
Jun 14, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	16 min
Jun 14, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	27 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	50 min
Jun 14, 5:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	29 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.