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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 2024Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2024, 3:30 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 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 19, 2024, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2024, 4:02 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 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 21:29 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
Jul 19, 1:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 Jul 19, 2:57 PM MDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:57 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 3:00 PM MDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:03 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:04 PM MDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:09 PM MDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:22 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:26 PM MDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 3:28 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
Jul 18, 6:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Wallace	100 min
Jul 18, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	16 min
Jul 18, 6:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	34 min
Jul 18, 7:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
Jul 18, 7:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	31 min
Jul 19, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min
Jul 19, 1:29 PM MDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman	3 hr
Jul 19, 1:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	34 min
Jul 19, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	38 min
Jul 19, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	37 min
Jul 19, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
Jul 19, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	48 min
Jul 19, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	20 min
Jul 19, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	62 min
Jul 19, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	31 min
Jul 19, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	65 min
Jul 19, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	31 min
Jul 19, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	19 min
Jul 19, 12:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	37 min
Jul 19, 12:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 min
Jul 19, 2:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	13 min
Jul 19, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	17 min
Jul 19, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	23 min
Jul 19, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
Jul 19, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	29 min
Jul 19, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	67 min
Jul 19, 3:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	23 min
Jul 19, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
Jul 19, 1:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy	49 min
Jul 19, 2:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	24 min
Jul 19, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	32 min
Jul 19, 2:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	19 min
Jul 19, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	10 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.