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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Goodland, KS

June 6, 2022Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2022, 5:15 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2022, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Cheyenne County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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 6, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 2:59 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:32 PM MDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:42 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:01 PM MDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:10 PM MDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 6:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	17 min
Jun 5, 6:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	62 min
Jun 5, 7:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	59 min
Jun 5, 7:17 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	43 min
Jun 5, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	45 min
Jun 5, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur	61 min
Jun 5, 8:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	28 min
Jun 5, 8:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	45 min
Jun 5, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	14 min
Jun 5, 10:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	62 min
Jun 6, 4:14 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 6, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	33 min
Jun 6, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	35 min
Jun 6, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	28 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	31 min
Jun 6, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	37 min
Jun 6, 3:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	25 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	36 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	33 min
Jun 6, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
Jun 6, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	29 min
Jun 5, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	65 min
Jun 5, 7:41 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Red Willow	5 hr
Jun 5, 9:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	31 min
Jun 5, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	57 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.