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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 4:37 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morland, KS | Brief tornado. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 282138 TORGLD KSC065-282215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 437 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 437 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAINT PETER...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILL CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MORLAND...PENOKEE AROUND 445 PM CDT AT 432 PM A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF SAINT PETER. 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 3918 10015 3919 9992 3957 9991 3957 10018 &
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, 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, 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.