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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 1998Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1998, 8:08 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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: Jul 9, 1998, 8:08 PM MDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1998, 9:10 PM MDT
In force: 62 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 02:09 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
Jul 9, 8:10 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 54	Goodland Arpt, KS	Also, 65 mph wind gust at Goodland CATV 2 miles south of Goodland.

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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

252 
WFUS1 KGLD 100209 RRA
TORGLD
KSC181-100310-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
808 PM MDT THU JUL 9 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 910 PM MDT

* AT 807 PM MDT... LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO 3
  MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GOODLAND                                AROUND 815 PM MDT
  EDSON                                   AROUND 850 PM MDT

A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS
NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

BARKER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 9, 1:48 PM MDT, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:48 PM MDT, 6 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
148 PM MDT (248 PM CDT) THU JUL 9 1998

...THE CHALLENGE THIS FCST PACKAGE IS TSTM POTENTIAL AND
HVY RNFL THREAT...

ALL MODELS HV BEEN DOING POORLY LATELY...HWVR...LIKE THE NGM/AVN
THIS FCST PACKAGE. LTST WTR VAPOR AND VISIBLE LOOP SHOWS SW MONSOON
MOISTURE PLUME OVR MUCH OF CWA...WITH MID LVL DRY PUNCH MOVING N
THRU SE CO AND SW KS. LTST RADAR LOOP ALSO INDCS SOME WK CNVTN OVR
SW NEBRASKA ERN CO...UNDER MN MOISTURE PLUME.

FEEL CNVTN WILL CONT OVR NE CO...SW NEBRASKA TNGT WITH POSSIBLE MCS
DVLPMT SPCLY OVR NRN CWA. THIS FITS WELL WITH BOTH NGM/AVN PRECIP
FIELDS THRU 6Z FRI. ALSO...700 MB OMEGA FIELDS ALSO SUPPORT CNVTN OVR
NE CO AND SW NEBRASKA...WITH E/SE PROPAGATION INDCD BY THE CORFIDI
VECTORS. MODIFIED SOUNDING GIVES CAPES OF OVR 2000 WITH LI OF ARND
-7 FOR GLD AND HLC AND WET BULB TEMPS 2000 FT LWR THAN YDA...CANT
RULE OUT ISOLD SVR WITH VERY HVY RNFL LKLY. CONSIDERING ABNDT
RNFL...CRNT FLDNG OVR PORTIONS OF CWA FM LAST NGTS RNFL AND PW OVR
ONE INCH...WILL ISSUE FLASH FLD WTCH FOR A PTN OF CWA OVNGT. WITH
THIS IN MIND WILL GO SLIGHTLY ABV MOS POPS TNGT WITH MN THREAT N OF
I-70.

STAYING WITH MOS...WILL KEEP POPS IN PACKAGE THRU FRI NGT WITH
MOISTURE PLUME LKLY LINGERING OVR CWA. TEMPS LOOK RESONABLE WITH MOS
DOING EXCELLENT JOB. EXTENDED FCST MODELS SHO POSSIBLE CNVTN ON
SUN...WITH DRYING MONDAY AND TUE.

CONFIDENCE IS RATED BELOW AVERAGE THIS FCST GVN INCONSISTENT
PAST MODEL PERFORMANCE...HWVR...FEEL THAT THE POP COVERAGE IN THE
CRNT PACKAGE IS RESONABLE CONSIDERING AN AVERAGE OF ALL MODEL
PARAMETERS AND PAST EVE RNFL.

.GLD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NW KS COUNTIES 1...13...14...27...28

MATHEWSON/VJN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	61 min
Jul 9, 7:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	6 hr
Jul 9, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	66 min
Jul 9, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	66 min
Jul 9, 8:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wallace	6 hr
Jul 9, 9:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	14 hr
Jul 9, 9:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	2 hr
Jul 10, 12:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	64 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.