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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2016, 3:23 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 21 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, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 3:44 PM MDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.
873
WFUS53 KGLD 272123
TORGLD
COC017-272200-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0052.160527T2123Z-160527T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
323 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 400 PM MDT
* AT 322 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...AND IS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND VEHICLES.
* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 136 AND 140.
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 3870 10247 3868 10227 3861 10229 3861 10249
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 153DEG 3KT 3865 10240
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
DR1 follow-up statement
791
WWUS53 KGLD 272144
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
344 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
COC017-272153-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0052.000000T0000Z-160527T2200Z/
CHEYENNE CO-
344 PM MDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3870 10247 3868 10227 3861 10229 3861 10249
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 153DEG 3KT 3867 10241
$$
DRThe 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, 2:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 35 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 |
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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.