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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 2015Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2015, 9:27 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 23, 2015, 9:27 PM MDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2015, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2015-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1196 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2015-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne13 min
Jun 23, 8:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne22 min
Jun 23, 8:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne22 min
Jun 23, 9:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma22 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne44 min
Jun 23, 9:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma13 min
Jun 23, 9:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma25 min
Jun 23, 10:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma39 min
Jun 23, 10:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock66 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.