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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 2000Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2000, 10:44 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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 9, 2000, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 9, 10:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Selden, KS
Jul 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Selden, KS
Jul 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Hail 1	Selden, KS

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 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.

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 100344
SVRGLD
KSC179-100445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1044 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SELDEN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF   
  HOXIE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 75
MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

$$

THEDE

LAT...LON 3955 10072 3943 10072 3949 10026 3961 10042

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 9, 3:28 PM CDT, 7 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:28 PM CDT, 7 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
228 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 2000

ANOTHER ROUND OF HOT TEMPERATURES OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON AND THE HOT
TMPS WILL CONTINUE ALTHOUGH...THE MODELS WERE INDICATING A COUPLE OF
DEGREE TEMPERATURE DROP WITH THE PASSAGE OF A TROUGH BY MONDAY. THE
NGM WAS THE COOLR OF THE MODELS AND WILL LEAN TOWARD A ETA/AVN
SOLN.

STRONG 5H/HI DRIFTED SE SLIGHTLY AND WAS OVER THE SE US. THIS SLIGHT
SHIFT EAST WAS PRODUCING A RETURN FLOW OF MOISTR INTO THE ROCKY
MTNS AND THE LATEST WVI INDICATED THIS INCREASE IN MOISTR WAS EDGING
INTO THE WESTERN AND NW FA. ALONG WITH THE MOISTR INCREASE A S/W WILL
ALSO APPROACH THE NW FA LATE THIS AFTN. THE MODELS WERE SHOWING A LOW
LVL CONVERGENCE ZONE ACRS THE W AREA WHERE A FEW CU WERE DEVELOPING
ATTM. IN ADDITION THE LATEST LAPS DATA SHOWED CAPE VALUES RISING TO
NEAR 2000J/KG WITH A DIMINISHING CAP OVR THE NNW FA AND A FEW TSRA
MAY DEVELOP BUT ONCE THE SUN SETS THIS ACTIVITY SHUD DIMINISH.

THE TROUGH LINGERS ACRS THE N AND NE PART OF THE FA MONDAY AND K
INDEX VALUES INCREASE TO ABOVE 35C. ALSO CAPES RISE ABOVE 1000J/KG
AND WITH A ESE LOW LVL FLOW USHERING ADDITIONAL MOISTR NORTHWARD I
MAY INCLUDE POPS FOR MOST OF THE FA MONDAY. A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO
NORTHERN NEBRASKA TUESDAY BUT I THINK IT WILL REMAIN NORTH OF OUR CWA
ESPECIALLY AS 5H/HGHTS REBUILD ACROSS THE AREA. 850/TMPS RISE
SLIGHTLY AND I EXPECT AFTN TMPS TO DO THE SAME WITH PCPN CHANCES
BEING BETTER ACRS OUR N FA.

IN THE EXTENDED...MRF/ECMWF/UKMET ALL SHOW THE 500 MB RIDGE
STRENGTHING WEDNESDAY INTO THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. I WILL GO
WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND HOT TEMPERATURES AS THIS RIDGE IS CENTERED
OVER THE FA. THE MRF CONTINUES WITH THE STRONG RIDGE PATTERN INTO
THE WEEKEND...SO IT COULD BE A LONG HAUL BEFORE WE SEE TEMPERATURES
BELOW NORMAL.

.GLD...NONE.

VPAPOL/SULLIVAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:03 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
903 PM MDT SUN JUL 09 2000

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

0900 PM    NORTON                    KS   1 INCH HAIL
07/09/00   NORTON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

AWJ

N

Local storm report, Jul 9, 10:40 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
940 PM MDT SUN JUL 09 2000

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

0915 PM    5 S JENNINGS              KS   WIND DAMAGE
07/09/00   DECATUR                        ROOF BLOWN OFF OF A
                                          FARM BUILDING INTO
                                          HOUSE. REPORTED BY
    o                                      PUBLIC.

AWJ

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
Jul 9, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	65 min
Jul 9, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	31 min
Jul 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	52 min
Jul 9, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	36 min
Jul 10, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	63 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	67 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	57 min
Jul 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jul 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	55 min
Jul 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	60 min
Jul 10, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	56 min
Jul 10, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.