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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Goodland, KS

October 28, 2000Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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: Oct 28, 2000, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 28, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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
Oct 28, 1:20 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Gove, KS	Tornado completely destroyed mobile home. Fences were torn out, and 2 utility poles were broken off along Highway 23.
Oct 28, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Gove, KS	Tornado touched down on northwest edge of town. Small barn had roof torn off, debris in adjacent field, and windmill destroyed. Also, some large tree limbs down in town.
Oct 28, 1:39 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Grainfield, KS	Old wooden bridge railing torn off by winds. In addition, shingles torn off barn and house, as well as a few utility poles leaning to one side.

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 281747
TORGLD

KSC063-281830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1247 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTH OF GOVE...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES NORTH OF DIGHTON...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GOVE AROUND 115 PM CDT
  GRAINFIELD...QUINTER AROUND 125 PM CDT
  PARK AROUND 130 PM CDT

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!

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

$$

ENTWISTLE

LAT...LON 3863 10063 3859 10041 3913 10019 3913 10055

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 28, 1:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	28 min
Oct 28, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	30 min
Oct 28, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	60 min
Oct 28, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham	38 min
Oct 28, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	52 min
Oct 28, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	39 min
Oct 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	63 min
Oct 28, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	37 min
Oct 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas and 1 more	6 hr

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.