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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS

July 21, 2000Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2000, 7:45 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 21, 2000, 7:45 PM MDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 45 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 01:45 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 21, 4:15 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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.

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: 941 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.0

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The text

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

061 
WFUS53 KGLD 220146
TORGLD
KSC181-220230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
745 PM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM MDT

* AT 745 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES NORTH OF         
  RULETON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING          
  SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RULETON AROUND 755 PM MDT
  GOODLAND AROUND 805 PM MDT

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

$$

SKIPPER

LAT...LON 3955 10149 3956 10204 3926 10202 3936 10158

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	67 min
Jul 21, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
Jul 21, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	42 min
Jul 21, 8:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	55 min
Jul 21, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	59 min
Jul 21, 9:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	54 min
Jul 21, 10:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	58 min
Jul 22, 1:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	55 min
Jul 22, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	67 min
Jul 22, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	65 min
Jul 22, 2:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	46 min
Jul 22, 3:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	42 min
Jul 22, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	59 min
Jul 22, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.