Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT for Decatur County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 22, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3417 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
927 WUUS53 KGLD 230355 SVRGLD KSC039-179-230445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1055 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1055 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DRESDEN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF HOXIE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...TASCO...SELDEN... LEOVILLE...KANONA...JENNINGS AND HOXIE. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. $$ SKIPPER LAT...LON 4001 10025 3955 10070 3919 10028 3958 10018
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.