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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Goodland, KS

May 23, 1998Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1998, 2:37 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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: May 23, 1998, 2:37 PM MDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1998, 3:10 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 23, 2:55 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Goodland, KS

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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 23, 2:28 PM MDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:28 PM MDT, 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 10:45 AM MDT, 3 hours 52 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
May 22, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	65 min
May 22, 6:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
May 22, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	65 min
May 22, 7:26 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
May 22, 7:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	65 min
May 22, 7:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	48 min
May 22, 8:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	63 min
May 22, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	78 min
May 22, 9:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	77 min
May 22, 9:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	79 min
May 22, 9:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	49 min
May 22, 9:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham	51 min
May 22, 10:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	47 min
May 22, 10:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	45 min
May 23, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	76 min
May 23, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	67 min
May 22, 6:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	46 min
May 22, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	49 min
May 22, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	62 min
May 22, 7:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	4 hr
May 22, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	32 min
May 22, 8:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	50 min
May 22, 8:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	2 hr
May 22, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.