Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2017, 4:40 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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 27, 2017, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2017, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 27, 5:07 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 5 Ssw Burlington, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
059
WUUS53 KGLD 272240
SVRGLD
COC063-272315-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0013.170427T2240Z-170427T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
440 PM MDT THU APR 27 2017
The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Kit Carson County in east central Colorado...
* Until 515 PM MDT
* At 439 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 8 miles northeast of Stratton to near Bethune,
moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Burlington and Bethune.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 425 and 443.
Highway 385 between mile markers 174 and 204, and near mile marker
211.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3933 10216 3911 10222 3908 10254 3928 10252
3946 10254 3955 10223
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 240DEG 44KT 3941 10251 3931 10247 3910 10248
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
JN1 follow-up statement
049
WWUS53 KGLD 272259
SVSGLD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
459 PM MDT THU APR 27 2017
COC063-272315-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-170427T2315Z/
Kit Carson CO-
459 PM MDT THU APR 27 2017
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM MDT
FOR EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY...
At 459 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 8 miles southwest of Bonny Reservoir to 11 miles
northwest of Kanorado to 7 miles south of Burlington, moving
northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Burlington and Bethune.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 70 in Colorado between mile markers 429 and 443.
Highway 385 between mile markers 174 and 204, and near mile marker
211.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3933 10216 3911 10222 3910 10241 3928 10244
3943 10245 3955 10223
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 240DEG 44KT 3952 10227 3942 10223 3921 10225
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:15 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 11 min |
| Apr 27, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Yuma | 22 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.