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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 2023Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2023, 5:33 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 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 23, 2023, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2023, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 309 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 820 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 4:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley30 min
Jun 23, 5:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson50 min

Nearby

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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.