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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2016, 2:25 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 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
- May 27, 2016, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.5 in
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
567
WFUS53 KGLD 272025
TORGLD
COC125-272100-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0047.160527T2025Z-160527T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
225 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...
* UNTIL 300 PM MDT
* AT 225 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF BONNY RESERVOIR...MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL 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.
* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY.
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 3970 10250 3965 10241 3957 10248 3957 10265
TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 040DEG 24KT 3963 10250
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
JN1 follow-up statement
322
WWUS53 KGLD 272042
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
242 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC125-272100-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160527T2100Z/
YUMA CO-
242 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY...
AT 241 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COPE...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF
STRATTON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3970 10250 3965 10241 3957 10248 3957 10265
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 040DEG 24KT 3954 10259
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:45 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 73 min |
| May 26, 7:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| May 26, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 45 min |
| May 26, 10:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 12 hr |
| May 27, 11:03 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
| May 27, 11:54 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 20 min |
| May 27, 12:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 12 min |
| May 27, 12:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 27 min |
| May 27, 12:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 21 min |
| May 27, 1:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 22 min |
| May 27, 2:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| May 27, 2:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 32 min |
| May 27, 2:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 37 min |
| May 27, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 21 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.