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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 5:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:09 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | Monument, KS | |
| Jun 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 59 M | Oakley, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGLD 092158 SVRGLD KSC109-092255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 455 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 555 PM CDT * AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF LEOTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RUSSELL SPRINGS AROUND 555 PM CDT HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER 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 INATO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. $$ COLEMAN LAT...LON 3870 10142 3869 10115 3889 10082 3910 10103
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 44 min |
| Jun 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 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.