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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

April 27, 2021Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2021, 5:28 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 27, 2021, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2021, 5:54 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 27, 11:45 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

120 
WUUS53 KGLD 272328
SVRGLD
COC063-125-280015-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0007.210427T2328Z-210428T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
528 PM MDT Tue Apr 27 2021

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southwestern Yuma County in northeastern Colorado...
  North central Kit Carson County in east central Colorado...

* Until 615 PM MDT.

* At 528 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles southeast
  of Cope, or 18 miles north of Stratton, moving northeast at 10 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southwestern Yuma and north central Kit Carson Counties, including
  the following locations... Joes and Kirk.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3941 10264 3957 10280 3978 10260 3959 10235
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 224DEG 8KT 3958 10263 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Lockhart

1 follow-up statement

144 
WWUS53 KGLD 272354
SVSGLD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
554 PM MDT Tue Apr 27 2021

COC063-125-280003-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-210428T0015Z/
Yuma CO-Kit Carson CO-
554 PM MDT Tue Apr 27 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN YUMA AND NORTH
CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However small hail and
gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM MDT for
northeastern and east central Colorado.

LAT...LON 3941 10264 3957 10280 3978 10260 3959 10235
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 224DEG 8KT 3962 10258 

$$

Lockhart

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 2:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	39 min
Apr 27, 2:42 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	33 min
Apr 27, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	62 min
Apr 27, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	57 min
Apr 27, 4:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	24 min
Apr 27, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min
Apr 27, 4:31 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
Apr 27, 4:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Apr 27, 4:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	43 min
Apr 27, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	48 min
Apr 27, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	32 min
Apr 27, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	29 min
Apr 27, 5:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	42 min
Apr 27, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	35 min
Apr 27, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	67 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.