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Tornado Warning 58, NWS Goodland, KS

August 8, 2023Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2023, 10:27 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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: Aug 8, 2023, 10:27 PM MDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2023, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.0 in

County Cheyenne County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 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
Aug 8, 9:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 1845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 1.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 8, 10:16 PM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 10:16 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 9:46 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 9:58 PM MDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 10:05 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 10:15 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 10:22 PM MDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 10:25 PM MDT, 2 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
Aug 8, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Sherman	67 min
Aug 8, 9:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Sherman	57 min
Aug 8, 9:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	25 min
Aug 8, 9:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	58 min
Aug 8, 9:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	32 min
Aug 8, 10:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	30 min
Aug 8, 10:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	38 min
Aug 8, 10:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	35 min
Aug 8, 10:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	27 min
Aug 8, 10:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	22 min
Aug 8, 10:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	55 min
Aug 8, 11:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	27 min
Aug 8, 11:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Aug 8, 11:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	18 min
Aug 8, 11:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	17 min
Aug 8, 11:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	45 min
Aug 8, 11:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	29 min
Aug 8, 11:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	39 min
Aug 9, 12:05 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	6 hr
Aug 9, 12:10 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	35 min
Aug 9, 12:24 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	6 hr
Aug 9, 12:26 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	34 min
Aug 9, 12:51 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	24 min
Aug 9, 1:07 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	23 min
Aug 9, 1:30 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	30 min
Aug 9, 1:33 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	27 min
Aug 9, 1:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	11 min
Aug 9, 1:56 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	34 min
Aug 9, 1:58 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	32 min
Aug 9, 2:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	24 min
Aug 9, 2:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	31 min
Aug 9, 6:40 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	3 hr
Aug 9, 9:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	23 min
Aug 9, 11:36 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	24 min
Aug 9, 11:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	15 min
Aug 8, 6:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	35 min
Aug 8, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	23 min
Aug 8, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	84 min
Aug 8, 6:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	27 min
Aug 8, 6:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	55 min
Aug 8, 6:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	61 min
Aug 8, 7:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Kit Carson	78 min
Aug 8, 7:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	40 min
Aug 8, 7:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	38 min
Aug 8, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	14 min
Aug 8, 7:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Aug 8, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	29 min
Aug 8, 8:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Kit Carson	47 min
Aug 8, 9:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
Aug 8, 9:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	8 hr
Aug 8, 10:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	10 min
Aug 8, 10:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	65 min
Aug 8, 10:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	34 min
Aug 8, 11:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	60 min
Aug 8, 11:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	23 min
Aug 8, 11:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Aug 8, 11:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
Aug 9, 12:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	37 min
Aug 9, 12:12 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Aug 9, 12:14 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	31 min
Aug 9, 12:25 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Aug 9, 8:23 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	37 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.