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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Goodland, KS

October 28, 2000Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Oct 28, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Norton County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Norton, 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 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 282253
TORGLD

KSC137-282330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 10
  MILES WEST OF NORTON...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  REAGER AROUND 600 PM CDT

IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE
IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS
WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN
OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER!

$$

ENTWISTLE

LAT...LON 3968 10009 3970 9986 4001 9987 4002 10017

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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, 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, 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.