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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 3:10 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1997, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:29 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Tribune, KS | |
| Jun 11, 3:35 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Tribune, KS | Tornado observed by farmer moving east at 20 mph over open country. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 461 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
053 WFUS1 KGLD 112112 RRA TORGLD KSC071-112200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 310 PM MDT WED JUN 11 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HWY 27...8 MILES NORTH OF TRIBUNE AROUND 325 PM MDT HORACE AROUND 335 PM MDT TRIBUNE AROUND 340 PM MDT * AT 309 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORACE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.