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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 26, 2016Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2016, 4:42 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 18 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: Jul 26, 2016, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2016, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -387 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jul 26, 4:41 PM MDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 4:41 PM MDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 11:12 AM MDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1112 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-271645-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS-
DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-
GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1112 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016 /1212 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS
THE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT
HOURS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY NORTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 AND
WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS TO THE WEST DURING THE EARLY EVENING AND
MORE NUMEROUS TO THE NORTH DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT
HOURS. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE
CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS REGION EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE AND ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 4:42 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
442 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016

COZ090-091-262300-
YUMA COUNTY CO-KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-
442 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN YUMA AND
NORTHWESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM MDT...

AT 442 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF COPE TO 14 MILES NORTH OF
SEIBERT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ABARR AND JOES.

LAT...LON 3957 10296 3957 10280 3985 10280 3987 10262
      3939 10263 3943 10296
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 265DEG 26KT 3976 10288 3951 10288

LUNDQUIST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 5:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
Jul 26, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	18 min
Jul 26, 5:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	17 min
Jul 26, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	15 min
Jul 26, 5:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	17 min
Jul 26, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	30 min
Jul 26, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	15 min
Jul 26, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	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.