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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2016, 10:08 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 12 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
- Jun 28, 2016, 10:08 PM MDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2016, 10:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 2.0 in
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
865
WFUS53 KGLD 290408
TORGLD
COC063-290445-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0065.160629T0408Z-160629T0445Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1008 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT
* AT 1008 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF BONNY RESERVOIR...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER.
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
NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON 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 3957 10236 3955 10231 3946 10244 3957 10254
TIME...MOT...LOC 0408Z 323DEG 16KT 3956 10249
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN
$$
JN2 follow-up statements
733
WWUS53 KGLD 290418
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1018 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016
COC063-290445-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0065.000000T0000Z-160629T0445Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
1018 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM MDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY...
AT 1017 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF BETHUNE...OR 16 MILES WEST OF BONNY
RESERVOIR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND TWO INCH HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3957 10236 3955 10231 3946 10244 3957 10254
TIME...MOT...LOC 0417Z 323DEG 16KT 3952 10246
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN
$$
JN621
WWUS53 KGLD 290420
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1020 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016
COC063-290430-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0065.000000T0000Z-160629T0445Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
1020 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY 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. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM MDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
LAT...LON 3957 10236 3955 10231 3946 10244 3957 10254
TIME...MOT...LOC 0419Z 323DEG 16KT 3951 10245
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 8:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Yuma | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 9:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 23 min |
| Jun 28, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 9:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 9:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 10:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 10:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 15 min |
| Jun 28, 10:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 18 min |
| Jun 28, 10:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 16 min |
| Jun 28, 11:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 11:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 11:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 11:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 12:31 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 14 min |
| Jun 29, 12:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 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.