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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2015, 3:08 PM MDT for Cheyenne 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2015, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 2:29 PM MDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:29 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 247 PM MDT SAT AUG 8 2015 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-092100- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 247 PM MDT SAT AUG 8 2015 /347 PM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS...WITH COVERAGE INCREASING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AS ACTIVITY SPREADS NORTHEAST. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE ARE DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH...LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES...AND HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY FROM SUNDAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THESE PERIODS WILL BE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:38 AM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:08 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
308 PM MDT SAT AUG 8 2015
COZ092-082130-
CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-
308 PM MDT SAT AUG 8 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY
UNTIL 330 PM MDT...
AT 307 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES NORTH OF KIT CARSON...OR 24 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
CHEYENNE COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3904 10281 3904 10264 3889 10254 3880 10286
3892 10295
TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 226DEG 8KT 3890 10278
HUSTEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 6:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 6:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 1 more | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 11:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 12:06 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 5:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 5:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 7:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 3:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 16 min |
| Aug 8, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 6:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 7:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 8:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 9:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 14 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.