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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS

July 5, 2000Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2000, 5:32 PM MDT for Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 5, 2000, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2000, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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
Jul 5, 5:50 PM MDT	Hail 1	Max, NE
Jul 5, 6:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Stratton, NE

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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 2721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

804 
WFUS53 KGLD 052332
TORGLD
NEC057-087-060015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
632 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
  DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT(615 PM MDT)

* AT 632 PM CDT(532 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MAX...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  STRATTON NE AROUND 645 PM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

$$

LAT...LON 4011 10152 3998 10135 4034 10080 4034 10102
          4034 10125

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	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.