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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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 18:48 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, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hoxie, KS | Damage to utility poles from tornado. No other damage reported. |
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, 6.8 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.
- 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 281846 TORGLD KSC179-281915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 145 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 145 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF HOXIE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HOXIE AROUND 200 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! A TORNADO WAS REPORTED AT GOVE AROUND 130 PM AND ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF GOVE AT 139 PM. 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! $$ ENTWISTLE LAT...LON 3912 10062 3910 10038 3951 10032 3951 10058]
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, 1:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 28 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.