Thunderstorm Wind, Cheyenne
- When
- July 6, 4:50 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 11 mi N of Aroya
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 39.009, -103.130
Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 6, 2008
Slow-moving thunderstorms formed along a stationary boundary in eastern Colorado and northwest Kansas during the afternoon and evening, resulting in an isolated tornado, heavy rainfall and a few severe wind reports.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Slow-moving thunderstorms formed along a stationary boundary in eastern Colorado and northwest Kansas during the afternoon and evening, resulting in an isolated tornado, heavy rainfall and a few severe wind reports.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 6, 4:03 PM MST, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 4:03 PM MST, 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 503 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 .DISCUSSION... 200 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 COLD FRONT SLOWLY MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPARENT ON WATER VAPOR IN CENTRAL COLORADO WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT RESULTING IN GOOD CHANCES FOR SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT PRIMARILY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT A HEAVY RAIN THREAT...BUT WITH STORM MOTIONS GREATER THAN 10KTS AND NO SATURATED GROUND TO SPEAK OF DO NOT BELIEVE IT WILL BE A WIDESPREAD CONCERN. NONETHELESS...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR POTENTIAL TRAINING GIVEN SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND STORM MOTIONS NEARLY PARALLEL TO IT. FRONT FORECAST TO BE DRAPED ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND BEST CHANCES WILL SHIFT TO THOSE AREAS FOR RENEWED CONVECTION. ACTIVITY WILL SETTLE INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT WITH THE FRONT. WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW WILL FOLLOW FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. DIFFICULT TO FIND ANY PERTURBATIONS IN THAT FLOW AS QVECTORS BASICALLY FAVOR AREAS TO THE SOUTH FOR SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT. POST FRONTAL LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW MAY BE ENOUGH TO INITIATE STORMS ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS OF COLORADO TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH DAYTIME HEATING AS INDICATED BY THE NAM...SO LEFT SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS IN THE FAR WEST BUT OTHERWISE DECIDED TO KEEP MOST OF THE AREA DRY. .LONG TERM... (THURSDAY - SUNDAY) 200 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 PATTERN CHANGE WILL BE UNDERWAY AS TROUGH SETTLES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. AS THE PATTERN TRANSITIONS...SHORTWAVE RIDGING WILL BE OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A COUPLE OF DRY AND HOT DAYS TO START THE PERIOD. AS SOUTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED TOWARDS THE LATTER PART OF THE PERIOD THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WITH A DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE FETCH ORIGINATING IN THE BAJA REGION. 24 && .AVIATION... 502 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 FOR 00Z TAFS...TIMING AND DURATION OF TSRA WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN FOR KMCK AND KGLD TONIGHT AND MONDAY. CURRENT STORMS WILL LAST THROUGH MOST OF THE EVENING OR 06Z WITH BKN MID LEVEL CLOUDS OVERNIGHT. GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL EVEN WITH THUNDERSTORMS OTHER THAN MVFR UNDER HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS. A FEW STORMS EARLY THIS EVENING COULD CONTAIN SOME LARGE HAIL ESPECIALLY NEAR KMCK. AN UNFAVORABLE DOWNSLOPE WIND DIRECTION LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING SHOULD INHIBIT STRATUS DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH VFR PREVAILING AND MVFR UNDER SHOWERS. FS && && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && WFO GOODLAND
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 9:46 AM MST, 7 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1046 AM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-071645- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1046 AM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 /1146 AM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. THIS FRONT WILL BE NEAR A WESKAN TO NORTON LINE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS FRONT AFTER 2 PM MDT (3 PM CDT). LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY STORM THAT FORMS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WHICH WILL ALSO BRING THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT A LINGERING NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST FRONTAL BOUNDARY COUPLED WITH A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING ALONG IT WILL PROVIDE A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND POTENTIAL FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE SEVERAL PERIODS OF RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. JRM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 6, 2:46 PM MST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
346 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0330 PM TORNADO 17 E GOODLAND 39.35N 101.39W
07/06/2008 SHERMAN KS NWS EMPLOYEE
TORNADO WAS VISIBLE FROM THE NWS GOODLAND OFFICE FOR
APPROXIMATELY 5 MIN.
&&
SJOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 6, 3:17 PM MST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
417 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0408 PM HAIL 12 N LEVANT 39.55N 101.19W
07/06/2008 E0.88 INCH THOMAS KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
SJOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 6, 3:26 PM MST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0330 PM TORNADO 14 E GOODLAND 39.35N 101.45W
07/06/2008 SHERMAN KS NWS EMPLOYEE
TORNADO WAS VISIBLE FROM THE NWS GOODLAND OFFICE FOR
APPROXIMATELY 5 MIN. CORRECTED FOR LOCATION.
&&
SJOHNSONSpecial weather statement, Jul 6, 3:42 PM MST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 NEZ080-062315- HITCHCOCK- 542 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 541 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAX...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 11 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:14 PM MST, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 514 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 NEZ080-062345- HITCHCOCK- 614 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 608 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR STRATTON NE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 19 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE.
Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:35 PM MST, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
535 PM MDT SUN JUL 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0527 PM FLASH FLOOD 12 N LEVANT 39.55N 101.19W
07/06/2008 THOMAS KS TRAINED SPOTTER
WATER 1 FOOT DEEP IS RUNNING OVER COUNTY ROAD 10. WATER
IS DRAINING INTO THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE SAPPA CREEK.
&&
SJOHNSONThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Kit Carson
- When
- July 6, 5:35 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County, Burlington Arpt
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 39.320, -102.280
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 6, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 6, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 6, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, July 6, 2008
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, July 6, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flood in South Dakota, July 6 to 7, 2008
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in Iowa, July 6, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 6, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 6, 2008
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2008
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 101235, 101236.