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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 10, 2015Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2015, 12:07 AM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 38 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 10, 2015, 12:07 AM MDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2015, 12:45 AM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2015-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 297 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 2015-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
297 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

083 
WWUS83 KGLD 100607
SPSGLD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1207 AM MDT MON AUG 10 2015
 
COZ091-092-100645-
KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-
1207 AM MDT MON AUG 10 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN KIT CARSON AND
NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM MDT...

AT 1205 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLAGLER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THAT MAY CREATE PONDING ON 
AREA ROADWAYS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SEIBERT...VONA AND AROYA. 

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 394 AND
415.
 
LAT...LON 3922 10315 3941 10286 3908 10237 3888 10272
      3882 10316 3883 10316
TIME...MOT...LOC 0605Z 291DEG 53KT 3919 10297 

$$

JN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 5:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan51 min
Aug 10, 12:53 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson52 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.