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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 2000Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 2000, 11:08 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 9, 2000, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Selden, KS
Jul 9, 11:25 PM CDT	Hail 1	Selden, 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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

732 
WFUS53 KGLD 100408
TORGLD
KSC179-100500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1108 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1108 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF SELDEN...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HOXIE...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

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

$$

THEDE

LAT...LON 3956 10073 3949 10072 3951 10049 3956 10055

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
Jul 9, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	65 min
Jul 9, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	61 min
Jul 9, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	31 min
Jul 9, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	36 min
Jul 10, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	63 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	67 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	57 min
Jul 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jul 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	55 min
Jul 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	60 min
Jul 10, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	56 min
Jul 10, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	59 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.