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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 30 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 30, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
847
WFUS53 KGLD 010115
TORGLD
COC063-010145-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0068.160701T0115Z-160701T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
715 PM MDT THU JUN 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
* UNTIL 745 PM MDT
* AT 714 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST
OF BETHUNE...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
SOURCE...PUBLIC CONFIRMED TORNADO.
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.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 434 AND 438.
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 184 AND 198.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3936 10248 3947 10241 3944 10217 3924 10227
TIME...MOT...LOC 0114Z 286DEG 17KT 3937 10238
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
0242 follow-up statements
253
WWUS53 KGLD 010131
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
731 PM MDT THU JUN 30 2016
COC063-010145-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0068.000000T0000Z-160701T0145Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
731 PM MDT THU JUN 30 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY...
AT 731 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF BETHUNE...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BURLINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BURLINGTON.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 70 IN COLORADO BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 434 AND 438.
HIGHWAY 385 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 184 AND 198.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3936 10248 3947 10241 3944 10217 3924 10227
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 296DEG 14KT 3941 10239
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
024411
WWUS53 KGLD 010143
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
743 PM MDT THU JUN 30 2016
COC063-010153-
/O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0068.000000T0000Z-160701T0145Z/
KIT CARSON CO-
743 PM MDT THU JUN 30 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 745 PM MDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3936 10248 3947 10241 3944 10217 3924 10227
TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 286DEG 17KT 3941 10239
$$
024The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 39 min |
| Jun 30, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 4:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 20 hr |
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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.