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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Goodland, KS

June 7, 2022Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2022, 5:14 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 7, 2022, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2022, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2022-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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 7, 5:12 PM MDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 5:12 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:37 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:53 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:09 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 6:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan30 min
Jun 6, 6:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace36 min
Jun 6, 6:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove30 min
Jun 6, 7:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan, Wichita30 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace32 min
Jun 7, 12:47 PM MDTFlood WatchGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan9 hr
Jun 7, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatGLDSherman, Wallace65 min
Jun 6, 6:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson35 min
Jun 6, 6:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne32 min
Jun 6, 7:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne30 min
Jun 6, 7:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne29 min
Jun 6, 7:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKiowa65 min
Jun 7, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma62 min
Jun 7, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma59 min
Jun 7, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy36 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.