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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2023, 1:17 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 13, 2023, 1:17 PM MDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2023, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 2.0 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 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 2101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 13, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:14 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 12:29 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 1229 PM MDT Thu Jul 13 2023 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-141830- Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas- Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock- Red Willow- 1229 PM MDT Thu Jul 13 2023 /129 PM CDT Thu Jul 13 2023/ This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska... northwest Kansas and east central Colorado. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for portions of eastern Colorado, southwest Nebraska, and northwestern Kansas until 8 PM MDT. Isolated severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail and damaging winds are possible this afternoon into this evening, mainly in eastern Colorado and adjacent Kansas and Nebraska border counties between 2 PM and 9 PM MDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... Scattered thunderstorms may develop along and east of Highway 83 Friday afternoon. While an isolated severe storm cannot be ruled out, severe weather may largely be confined southeast of the Tri- State area, over portions of central and southern Kansas. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 13, 7:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Goodland KS
737 AM MDT Thu Jul 13 2023
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 AM Fog 1 WSW Goodland 39.34N 101.73W
07/13/2023 E0.25 mi Sherman KS Public
Frontier Ag Camera at intersection of Hwy
24/27.
&&
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:05 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 12:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 12:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 12:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 67 min |
| Jul 13, 1:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 2:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 2:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 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.