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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Goodland, KS

May 16, 1999Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 10:23 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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: May 16, 1999, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1999, 11:25 PM CDT
In force: 62 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 03:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1319 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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 16, 3:08 PM CDT, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:08 PM CDT, 7 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
208 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999

ATTM LOW LEVEL CLOUD COVER WAS PERSISTING ACROSS THE CWA WITH A FEW
MINOR BREAKS ACROSS THE NW CWA. SOME DAYTIME HEATING AND LATEST
RUC SHOWED SOME MID LEVEL CAA HERE FIRST MAY PRODUCE A FEW LATE
AFTN TSTMS. ALSO HI DEWPTS CONT OVER THE FAR EASTERN CWA AND A FEW
TSTMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTN HERE AS THE NEG LIS EXIT BY
TONIGHT. SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED THE ETA BEING STRONGER WITH THE SFC LOW
OVER KANSAS AND MAY LEAN TOWARD A NGM/ETA SOLN.

AS A SFC COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH OF THE CWA TONIGHT...A LONG WAVE
TROUGH WAS OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND ITS ASSOCIATED 5H/VORT MAX
WILL MOVE INTO SC NE/NC KS BY MIDDAY MONDAY. BEFORE IT DOES MID LEVEL
MOISTURE INCREASES ACROSS THE CWA ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN
HALF. PLENTY OF MID LEVEL VORT ADVTN AND AFTER ANALYZING TIME
SECTIONS SHOWED VERY GOOD LIFT...OMEGAS AND 7H/VVELOCITIES...TONIGHT
ACROSS THE FA. MID AND UPPER LEVEL SW JET CONTS THIS EVENING WITH AN
APPROACHING RRQ WHICH SHUD ENHANCED UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ACROSS THE
FA. ALSO WITH MID LEVEL COOLING AND TMPS DIFFERENCES BETTER THAN 30C
BETWEEN 850/5H WILL GO HIER THAN MOS WITH POPS TONIGHT.

CLOUDS AND PCPN WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY MORNING AS 5H/MAX DRIFTS
EAST OF THE FA BY MIDDAY. COOL BUT IMPROVING WEATHER SHUD OCCUR FROM
W TO E AS A 5H/RIDGE EDGES INTO THE CWA LATE MON INTO TUESDAY
MORNING. AS SFC WNDS DECREASE A COOL MORNING MAY BE IN STORE. DRIER
AND ABOVE NORMAL AFTN TMPS ARE EXPECTED TUE WITH INCREASING
5H/HGHTS AND THCKNS.

EXTENDED CONTS TO HAVE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL AFTN TMPS.
DESPITE 5H/RIDGE OVER FA SUBTLE DISTURBANCE MAY SNEAK BELOW THE RIDGE
A PRODUCE A FEW TSHOWERS. ALTHOUGH THIS WAS LATER IN THE WEEK...MRF
WAS SHOWING A STRONG MID LEVEL LOW MOVING NE INTO OUR CWA THUR WITH
INCREASING MID LEVEL MOISTURE PERSISTING INTO FRIDAY. THEREFORE WILL
INCLUDE POPS FOR THUR/FRI.

.GLD...NONE.

VPAPOL

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
810 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    TRIBUNE                   KS    2 INCH HAIL
05/16/99   GREELEY

Local storm report, May 16, 9:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
810 PM MDT SUN MAY 16 1999

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    TRIBUNE                   KS    2 INCH HAIL
05/16/99   GREELEY

Local storm report, May 16, 9:31 PM CDT, 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 16, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	56 min
May 16, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	48 min
May 16, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	48 min
May 16, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	50 min
May 16, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	49 min
May 16, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.