Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2000, 2:29 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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 22, 2000, 2:29 PM MDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 22, 2:35 PM MDT | Hail 2.5 | Sharon Spgs, KS | Damaged roof on house and automobile. |
| Jul 22, 2:56 PM MDT | Hail 2 | Sharon Spgs, KS | |
| Jul 22, 3:15 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Sharon Spgs, KS | |
| Jul 22, 3:20 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Sharon Spgs, 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
934 WFUS53 KGLD 222029 TORGLD KSC199-222115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 229 PM MDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 315 PM MDT * AT 229 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES NORTH OF SHARON SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WESKAN AROUND 305 PM MDT SHARON SPRINGS...WALLACE AROUND 310 PM MDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR REINFORCED BUILDINGS. $$ SKIPPER LAT...LON 3912 10151 3912 10203 3884 10203 3888 10152
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, 7:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 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, 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 |
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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.