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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2000, 6:22 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2000, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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 23:22 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
677 WUUS53 KGLD 202323 SVRGLD KSC063-202350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 622 PM CDT SAT MAY 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 650 PM CDT * AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARK...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUINTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... QUINTER AROUND 635 PM CDT * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...PARK AND GRAINFIELD. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE...HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. $$ MENTZER LAT...LON 3912 10015 3913 10051 3900 10038 3897 10015
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 20, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 145 PM MDT SAT MAY 20 2000 ...FORECAST CONCERNS ARE PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT WITH TEMPS THROUGHOUT THE PACKAGE... LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE CONTINUING TO ADVERTISE TROUGH PASSAGE TONIGHT IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. BEST MOISTURE APPEARS TO BE ALONG THE FAR NORTHERN CWA OR OUT OF THE AREA COMPLETELY. DESPITE SUFFICIENT LIFT APPEARS ACTIVITY MAY BE OUT OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 00Z ZONE VALID TIME. FOR NOW ILL KEEP IT DRY. SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE FRONT WOULD SUGGEST RAPID CLEARING TOWARD MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE AREA. ON SUNDAY...LOOKS TO BE DRY AND STABLE AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS IN CONTROL. MONDAY HAS UPPER HIGH OVER NEW MEXICO WITH SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE HINTED AT BY THE AVN... SO PARTLY SUNNY LOOKS GOOD. AS FAR AS TEMPS...COOLEST TEMPS TONIGHT OVER THE WESTERN CWA WITH FWC/2M ETA SUGGESTING 40 TO 45. MIDDLE 40S WILL SUFFICE OVER THE CENTRAL WITH 45 TO 50 OVER THE EAST. FOR SUNDAY...COOLEST OVER THE WEST (75 TO 80) AND A BIT WARMER OVER THE EAST (80 TO 85) AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. SUNDAY NIGHT A BIT MORE UNIFORM UNDER A VEIL OF CLOUDS. WILL GO AROUND 50 EXPECT LOWER 50S OVER THE EAST. THEN FOR MONDAY...850 TEMPS WARM TO +23 TO +28C. THIS WOULD YIELD HIGHS OF 85 TO 90...ABOUT 5 TO 10 DEGREES ABOVE FWC GUIDANCE. WILL TEMPER THEM BACK TO MIDDLE 80S UNDER ABOVE MENTIONED SCATTERED CLOUDCOVER. THIS ALSO MATCHES 850 TEMPS CORRECTED FOR THEIR BIAS. IN THE EXTENDED...NOT MUCH CHANGE FROM YESTERDAYS RUN (OF THE MRF). NEAR ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA THROUGH THE PERIOD. HOWEVER...RECORD HIGHS IN JEOPARDY TUESDAY AS 850 TEMPS REACH A SCORCHING 30 TO 35C. THIS WOULD PUT HIGHS NEAR 100. ON WEDNESDAY... COLD FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DROPPING 850 TEMPS ABOUT 20 DEGREES AND TAKING US BELOW NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S. THIS IS A LITTLE ERRATIC COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS RUN WHICH WAS ABOUT 10 DEGREES WARMER. WILL COMPROMISE AND GO 75 TO 80. NO MOISTURE TO SPEAK OF SO WILL CONTINUE DRY. THEN FOR THURSDAY...RETURN FLOW AROUND THE SURFACE HIGH BRINGS BACK SOME WARMER AIR TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. HOWEVER...850 TEMPS STILL IN THE TEENS GIVING AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE 70S. AGAIN...WILL KEEP IT DRY AS MOISTURE IS SPARSE. .GLD...NONE. THEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 47 min |
| May 20, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 43 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.