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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2016, 5:04 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2016, 5:04 PM MDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2016, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 2.5 in
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:15 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | 7 Nne Bethune, CO | |
| Apr 15, 5:15 PM MDT | HAIL 2.5 | 4 W Burlington, CO | |
| Apr 15, 5:23 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 11 N Burlington, CO | TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| Apr 15, 5:27 PM MDT | HAIL 2.5 | 11 Ssw Bonny Reservoir, CO | STORM PRODUCED 2-2.5 INCH HAIL WITH TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. HAIL WAS OBSERVEDA LITTLE WHILE AFTER STORM PASSED. |
| Apr 15, 5:30 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | Bethune, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WFUS53 KGLD 152304
TORGLD
COC063-152330-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0005.160415T2304Z-160415T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
504 PM MDT FRI APR 15 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 530 PM MDT
* AT 504 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND TENNIS 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.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BURLINGTON AND BETHUNE.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 432 AND 436.
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 190 AND 201.
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 3925 10231 3933 10249 3951 10236 3947 10217
TIME...MOT...LOC 2304Z 208DEG 24KT 3941 10233
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.50IN
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 2:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 3:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 4:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 4:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 19 min |
| Apr 15, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 4:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 5:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 17 min |
| Apr 15, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 50 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.