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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

May 14, 2025Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2025, 5:58 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2025, 5:58 PM MDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2025, 6:24 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 14, 4:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 3074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

204 
WUUS53 KGLD 142358
SVRGLD
COC063-125-150045-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0021.250514T2358Z-250515T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
558 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Yuma County in northeastern Colorado...
  Northeastern Kit Carson County in east central Colorado...

* Until 645 PM MDT.

* At 558 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles west of
  Bonny Reservoir, moving northeast at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southeastern Yuma and northeastern Kit Carson Counties, including
  the following locations... Hale and Idalia.

This includes Highway 385 between mile markers 201 and 230.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3995 10236 3980 10205 3962 10205 3959 10207
      3946 10229 3954 10257
TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 214DEG 34KT 3959 10237 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

JRM

2 follow-up statements

077 
WWUS53 KGLD 150014
SVSGLD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
614 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

COC063-150024-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-250515T0045Z/
Kit Carson CO-
614 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of 
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for
northeastern Colorado...and northwestern Kansas.

&&

LAT...LON 3980 10205 3962 10205 3959 10207 3957 10210
      3957 10255 3995 10236
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 211DEG 27KT 3967 10231 

$$

COC125-150045-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-250515T0045Z/
Yuma CO-
614 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY...

At 614 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles northwest of
Bonny Reservoir, moving northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to 
         roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Bonny Reservoir, Hale, and Idalia.

This includes Highway 385 between mile markers 207 and 210, and
between mile markers 212 and 230.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3980 10205 3962 10205 3959 10207 3957 10210
      3957 10255 3995 10236
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 211DEG 27KT 3967 10231 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

JRM

804 
WWUS53 KGLD 150024 RRA
SVSGLD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
624 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

COC125-150034-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-250515T0045Z/
Yuma CO-
624 PM MDT Wed May 14 2025

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for
northeastern Colorado...and northwestern Kansas.

Remember, a Severe Thunderstorm Warning still remains in effect for
northern Yuma county through 730 PM MDT.

&&

LAT...LON 3980 10205 3962 10205 3959 10207 3957 10210
      3957 10255 3995 10236
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 214DEG 34KT 3975 10224 

$$

JRM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	60 min
May 14, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	52 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.