Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2000, 11:14 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 19, 2000, 11:14 PM MDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 46 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 05:14 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 19, 11:25 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | 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 00:00Z, 5.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 200515 TORGLD KSC181-200600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1114 PM MDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT * AT 1114 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER! $$ RJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 10:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 11:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 11:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 12:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 12:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 1:21 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 1:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 3:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 4:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 5:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 5:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 66 min |
| Jul 20, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 25 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.