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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 27, 2016Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2016, 2:45 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

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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 Aug 27, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 10:53 AM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1053 AM MDT SAT AUG 27 2016

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-281700-
YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS-
DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-
GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1053 AM MDT SAT AUG 27 2016 /1153 AM CDT SAT AUG 27 2016/

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

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

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A FLAGLER COLORADO TO HILL CITY
KANSAS LINE. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO MARGINALLY
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY
THREATS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FLASH FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH
THESE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY. THE
PRIMARY THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

STORMS THAT OCCUR SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:13 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
213 PM MDT SAT AUG 27 2016

COZ091-092-272045-
KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-
213 PM MDT SAT AUG 27 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN KIT CARSON AND
NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 245 PM
MDT...

AT 212 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF FLAGLER TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST
OF BOYERO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLAGLER AND SEIBERT.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 391 AND
408.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADWAYS.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3945 10315 3957 10291 3957 10279 3904 10283
      3893 10316
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 245DEG 15KT 3938 10308 3899 10319

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace32 min
Aug 26, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins46 min
Aug 26, 6:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace46 min
Aug 26, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins40 min
Aug 26, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace, Wichita45 min
Aug 26, 7:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins4 hr
Aug 26, 8:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton46 min
Aug 26, 8:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton41 min
Aug 26, 8:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSheridan51 min
Aug 26, 8:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDecatur, Norton3 hr
Aug 27, 3:35 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more7 hr
Aug 27, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace45 min
Aug 27, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace43 min
Aug 27, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita40 min
Aug 27, 1:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson18 min
Aug 27, 2:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson25 min
Aug 27, 3:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 27, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson41 min
Aug 27, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne14 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.