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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

June 12, 2000Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2000, 9:05 PM CDT
In force
29 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 01:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3861 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3861 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 130137
TORGLD
KSC179-130205-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
836 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 905 PM CDT

* AT 835 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN
  COUNTY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOXIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 
  MPH. 

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!

$$

MENTZER

LAT...LON 3'952 10042 3936 10030 3944 10017 3955 10019

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur47 min
Jun 12, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan46 min
Jun 12, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins31 min
Jun 12, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins31 min
Jun 12, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur32 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan46 min
Jun 12, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.