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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

July 20, 2000Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2000, 9:24 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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 20, 2000, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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 20, 9:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 75 E	Monument, KS	Straight Line Winds hit Monument and downed power lines and tree limbs. In addition, there was damage to vehicles and smaller structures, including part of a tin roof from a farm building. Power was out until the next day.
Jul 20, 9:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Park, 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
Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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: 2430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 54.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 210224
TORGLD
KSC063-109-210315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
924 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 924 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF OAKLEY...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRINNELL AROUND 945 PM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...MONUMENT.

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!

$$

COLEMAN

LAT...LON 3912 10107 3894 10105 3894 10057 3912 10058'

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	54 min
Jul 20, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	67 min
Jul 20, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	59 min
Jul 20, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	65 min
Jul 20, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	54 min
Jul 20, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	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.