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Tornado Warning 77, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2015, 7:03 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 27 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 7, 2015, 7:03 PM MDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.25 in
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
236
WFUS53 KGLD 080103
TORGLD
COC125-080130-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0077.150808T0103Z-150808T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
703 PM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 730 PM MDT
* AT 703 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONE STAR...OR 11 MILES
NORTH OF YUMA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAUNETA AND CLARKVILLE.
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 250 AND 269.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4044 10223 4015 10224 4017 10280 4035 10279
4035 10278 4043 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 0103Z 261DEG 25KT 4028 10279
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.25IN
$$1 follow-up statement
919
WWUS53 KGLD 080130
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
730 PM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015
COC125-080140-
/O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0077.000000T0000Z-150808T0130Z/
YUMA CO-
730 PM MDT FRI AUG 7 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN COLORADO.
LAT...LON 4044 10223 4015 10224 4017 10280 4035 10279
4035 10278 4043 10278
TIME...MOT...LOC 0124Z 261DEG 25KT 4028 10279
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 3:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 22 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 |
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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.