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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

May 20, 2000Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 20, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

149 
WUUS53 KGLD 202214 COR
SVRGLD
KSC193-202255-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED TYPO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
508 PM CDT SAT MAY 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 555 PM CDT

* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A         
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST OF COLBY...MOVING     
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GEM AROUND 515 PM CDT
  MINGO AROUND 520 PM CDT
  HALFORD AROUND 525 PM CDT
  MENLO AROUND 540 PM CDT

* ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...COLBY.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

$$

BULLER

LAT...LON 3950 10109 3933 10119 3913 10072 3942 10071

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 20, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan43 min
May 20, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove28 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.