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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Goodland, KS

June 19, 2000Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2000, 8:48 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 19, 2000, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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
Jun 19, 9:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kanona, KS
Jun 19, 9:22 PM CDT	Hail 1	Oberlin, KS
Jun 19, 9:36 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kanona, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

937 
WUUS53 KGLD 200148
SVRGLD
KSC039-200230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
848 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OBERLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JENNINGS AT 855 PM CDT
  KANONA AT 900 PM CDT
  CLAYTON AT 910 PM CDT
  NORCATUR AT 925 PM CDT

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...LEOVILLE AND DRESDEN.

HAIL AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT 
FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

$$

ENTWISTLE

LAT...LON 3976 10063 3957 10066 3957 10017 4001 10019
          4002 10033

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 Jun 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
216 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

...FORECAST CONCERN IS LOCATION AND STRENGTH OF TSRA THIS EVE...

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATING A SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM W THIS
AFTN. SOMEWHAT IMPRESSIVE CAPES AND LIS ACTUALLY SHOWING UP W OF GLD
CWA ALONG WITH DEVELOPING CONVECTION WHICH GOES AGAINST MODEL FCST
FOR LATER THIS AFTN/EVE. ETA ESPECIALLY KEEPS BEST CHCS OF TSTMS E-NE
OF FA WHERE BEST INSTABILITY AND MSTR EXISTS. JUST DISCUSSED ISSUANCE
OF SVR TSTM WATCH FOR NE PARTS OF CWA TIL 02Z. HAVE NO REASON TO
DISAGREE WITH THAT SCENARIO.

PROBLEM IS DRYLINE PUSHED E OF GLD WITH LOW SFC DEWPOINTS OVER W
PARTS OF CWA. WITH CONVECTION ALREADY INITIATING ALONG DRYLINE
WL GO WITH SCT STRONG TSTMS ACROSS E HALF OF CWA THIS EVE. WL LIKELY
GO WITH ISOLD TSTMS AS FLOW ALOFT SUPPORTS A FEW HI BASED STORMS
REACHING THE HIGH PLAINS BY EVE IN VCNTY OF BOUNDARY.

UPPER LVL TROUGH REMAINS OVER THE PLAINS NEXT FEW DAYS WITH NWLY
FLOW ALOFT. DYNAMICS AND MSTR WL BE S AND E OF CWA. BY TUESDAY
MORNING...COLD FRONT WL HAVE MOVED THRU CWA WITH DRIER AIR AT SFC
AND ALOFT. RH PROGS POINT TO MOSUNNY/PTCLDY SKIES FOR PERIODS 2 AND
3. COOLER SFC TEMPS SHOULD CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY WITH NIL POPS.
MOS TEMPS LOOK A LITTLE TOO WARM IN LATER PERIODS SO HAVE TRIMMED
TEMPS A LITTLE.

.GLD...NONE.

KPL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-200600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
646 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PART OF THE TRI
STATE AREA...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT (1 AM CDT).

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN NEBRASKA...RED WILLOW...HITCHCOCK AND DUNDY.

IN KANSAS...DECATUR...GRAHAM...NORTON...SHERIDAN...LOGAN...RAWLINS...
THOMAS...SHERMAN...GOVE...CHEYENNE AND WALLACE.

HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS FOR THE
REST OF THIS EVENING.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

KPL

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:02 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
702 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

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

0642 PM    BURLINGTON ARPT           CO   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   KIT CARSON

0656 PM    3 S KANORADO              KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   SHERMAN                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

AWJ
N

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:07 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
707 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
=
0704 PM    6 W GOODLAND              KS   75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   SHERMAN                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

AWJ
N

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:08 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
708 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

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

0654 PM    BURLINGTON ARPT           CO   58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   KIT CARSON

AWJ
N

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:44 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
744 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

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

0712 PM    2 NE RULETON              KS   75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   SHERMAN

0715 PM    GOODLAND                  KS   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/00   SHERMAN                        UP TO 3 INCH TREE LIMBS
                                          DOWN IN GOODLAND.
                                          REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
                                          NWS EMPLOYEE.

0724 PM    GOODLAND ARPT             KS   66 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   SHERMAN

AWJ

N

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:48 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
748 PM MDT MON JUN 19 2000

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

0742 PM    1 S BREWSTER              KS   75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/19/00   THOMAS                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

AWJ

N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jun 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	63 min
Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	32 min
Jun 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	42 min
Jun 19, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	41 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	35 min
Jun 19, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	62 min
Jun 19, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	46 min
Jun 19, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
Jun 19, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	59 min
Jun 19, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	36 min
Jun 19, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.