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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 2:45 AM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 3, 1998, 2:45 AM MDT (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 3:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 45 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 08:49 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
448 WUUS1 KGLD 030846 RRA SVRGLD KSC181-030930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 245 AM MDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 330 AM MDT * AT 246 AM MDT... GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND OR 6 MILES NORTH OF EDSON MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS THEDE
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 Jun 3, 2:30 AM MDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:30 AM MDT, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 AM MDT (330 AM CDT) WED JUN 3 1998 ...FORECAST PROBLEMS WILL BE CHC OF PCPN AND TEMPS THROUGH THE PERIOD... NOT A LOT TIME THIS MORNG WITH SVR WX OVR WRN CWA ATTM. BASED ON INITIAL ANALYSIS AND CURRENT TRENDS...LIKE THE NGM THE BEST FOR FEATURES 700 MB AND ABV ALONG WITH PCPN. NGM IS ONLY MDL SHOWG CURRENT PCPN ATTM. HWVR IN THIS SHALLOW COOL AMS ALG WITH SFC ANAL AND TRENDS...ETA IS DOING BETTER AT THE LOW LVLS. CURRENT PCPN BEING CAUSED BY 700 MB VORT MAX...MAYBE A RRQ ON JET... AND INTERACTION WITH FRONT. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD RACE ACROSS THE CWA THIS MRNG FOLLOWED BY STRATIFORM PCPN. DYNAMICS IMPROVE DURG THE NIGHT AND LINGER INTO THU. THEREFORE WILL KEEP CHC TO LIKELY POPS THROUGH PERIOD. BASED ON SHALLOW COOL AMS AND TEMPS ALREADY COOLER THAN WHAT NGM IS ADVERTISING...WL TEND TO GO WITH A NARROW DIURNAL RANGE WITH FCST BLO NGM MOS MAXES AND NR TO SLIGHTLY BLO NGM MOS MINS. .GLD...NONE BULLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 2:48 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 3:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.