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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS

July 22, 2000Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 1:38 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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 22, 2000, 1:38 PM MDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 22, 1:42 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Goodland, KS
Jul 22, 2:00 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Caruso, KS
Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDT	Hail 2.75	Goodland, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

424 
WUUS53 KGLD 221938
SVRGLD
KSC181-222045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
138 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 134 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF RULETON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RULETON AT 155 PM MDT
  GOODLAND AT 220 PM MDT
  EDSON AT 245 PM MDT

HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR
MORE 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.

$$

THEDE

LAT...LON 3945 10205 3929 10187 3913 10170 3913 10139
          3937 10139 3947 10160 3935 10171 3954 10195

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min
Jul 21, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
Jul 21, 7:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	45 min
Jul 21, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	42 min
Jul 21, 8:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	55 min
Jul 21, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	59 min
Jul 21, 9:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	54 min
Jul 21, 10:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	58 min
Jul 22, 1:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	55 min
Jul 22, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	65 min
Jul 22, 2:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	46 min
Jul 22, 3:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	42 min
Jul 22, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	59 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.