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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 1:32 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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 18:33 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, 1:39 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, 6.5 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 281832 TORGLD KSC063-281900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 132 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 132 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF GRAINFIELD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF GOVE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 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! $$ LAT...LON 3897 10060 3899 10037 3914 10038 3913 100z63
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 43 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 |
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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.