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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 1999Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1999, 4:51 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 25, 1999, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1999, 5:55 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 25, 5:02 PM CDTHail 0.75Quinter, KS
Jul 25, 5:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Quinter, KSTREE LIMBS BROKEN.

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 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 Jul 25, 3:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
203 PM MDT SUN JUL 25 1999

ATTM SATL WAS SHOWING A FEW CU DEVELOPING ACRS THE W CWA. THE LATEST
RUC SHOWED CAA ACROS THE MID LVLS OVR THE W FA AND COMBINING THIS
WITH DAYTIME HEATING EXPECT THIS CU TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS
AFTN.

AFTER THIS MORNINGS ANALYSIS WILL LEAN TOWARD THE NGM SOLN WHICH
INDICATED THE LOCATION OF THIS EARLY MORNINGS PCPN BETTR. ATTM A
THERMAL LOW WAS OVR GLD AND A SFC COLD FRONT WAS OVR NW NEBRASKA
THAT WAS MOVG SOUTH AND WILL APPROACH OUR NORTHERN CWA THIS LATE
AFTN. A 5H/VORT LONG WAVE TROUGH REMAINS ACROS THE FA AND AS THE SFC
COLD FRONT BECOMES STATIONARY OVR THE N CWA BY EARLY EVENING...TSRA
SHUD BEGIN TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND PERSIST INTO THE
EVENING. AFTER ANALYZING THE 12Z/DDC SOUNDING WHICH SHOWED AN
INCREASED CAP BUT AFTER MODIFICATION THE CAP DOES BREAK AND ACTIVITY
SHUD DEVELOP A LITTLE LATER TODAY THAN YDAY. ACTIVITY MAY TAKE
ALITTLE LONGER TO DEVELOP OVR THE C/E CWA AS THE RUC SHOWED SOME MID
LVL WARM AIR PERSISTING. ALSO AS THE FRONT DRIFTS SOUTH OF THE
NORTHERN CWA TONIGHT UPSLOPE NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL AND SKIES
SHUD BECOME MOSTLY CLOUDY.

THE FRONT DRIFTS SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL CWA EARLY MONDAY AND
APPEARS TO WASH OUT. SFC WINDS BECOME EAST UPSLOPE ACROSS MOST OF THE
CWA AND EXPECT LOW LVL CLOUD COVER TO INC ACROSS THE FA DURING THE
MORNING HOURS THAT CUD BE SLOW TO BURN OFF. A 5H/VORT MAX OVR SOUTH
CENTRAL COLORADO INTENSIFIES AND MOVES INTO E CO LATE MONDAY. THE
WASHED OUT FRONT DEVELOPS INTO A WARM FRONT AND MOVES NORTH INTO
NEBRASKA. PWATS INCREASE AS MOISTR ADVTS NORTH INTO THE TRI-STATE
AREA ON SE WINDS. NGM AND THE ETA TIME SECTIONS OVR GLD SHOW VERY
IMPRESSIVE OMEGA FIELDS WITH INCREASING MOISTR ALOFT. 7H/MIXR MOISTR
WAS FORECAST TO BE OVR 8 G/KG OVR MOST OF THE FA SO WILL INC POPS
DURING THIS PERIOD.

MID LVL CLOUD COVER REMAINS QUITE EXTENSIVE ACROSS THE CWA TUESDAY.
ALSO A LINGERING 5H/VORT MAX CONTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN FA THEREFORE
WILL LEAVE POPS ACROSS THE CWA. THCKNS DECREASES LATE MONDAY INTO
TUESDAY AND WILL LWR AFTN HIGH TMPS FROM PREVIOUS DAYS.

THE EXTENDED HAS THE 5H/HIGH EDGING INTO COLORADO WITH DRIER AIR MVG
INTO THE FA WEDNESDAY. THIS HIGH PUSHES INTO KANSAS THURSDAY AND
EXPECT A VERY WARM TO HOT DAY DRY DAY. THE HIGH DRIFTS EAST FRIDAY
AND RETURN MOISTR FROM THE GULF TRIES TO ENTER THE FA FROM THE SOUTH.
NEVER THE LESS ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS SHUD PERSIST INTO THE END OF THE
WEEK.

.GLD...NONE.

VPAPOL

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 7:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita6 hr
Jul 25, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove32 min
Jul 25, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins49 min
Jul 25, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham66 min
Jul 25, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins62 min
Jul 25, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne62 min
Jul 25, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove61 min
Jul 25, 6:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGove6 hr
Jul 25, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock46 min
Jul 25, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy61 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.