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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2015, 8:24 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 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 25, 2015, 8:24 PM MDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2015, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 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 02:26 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, 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2352 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 25, 8:14 PM MDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 8:14 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 25, 9:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 9:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 10:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 11:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 11:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 11:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 15 min |
| Jun 25, 11:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 12:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 8:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 8:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 10:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 10:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 10:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 16 min |
| Jun 25, 11:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 11:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 19 min |
| Jun 25, 8:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 9:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 48 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.