Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2015, 8:25 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 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 16, 2015, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2015, 8:47 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 5:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 8:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 9:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 11:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 10:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 11:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 38 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.