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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2023, 5:06 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 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
- May 18, 2023, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 18, 3:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 17, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 53 min |
| May 17, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 36 min |
| May 17, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 63 min |
| May 17, 8:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Sheridan | 35 min |
| May 17, 8:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| May 17, 9:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 26 min |
| May 17, 9:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 6 hr |
| May 18, 2:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 22 hr |
| May 18, 9:23 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Sherman | 5 hr |
| May 18, 4:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 26 min |
| May 18, 5:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| May 17, 7:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 36 min |
| May 17, 7:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 34 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.