Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 2:21 PM CST for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2000, 2:21 PM CST (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 312021 TORGLD KSC109-312100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 221 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 221 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY... MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RUSSELL SPRINGS AROUND 240 PM CST MONUMENT...WINONA AROUND 255 PM CST A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN O\BSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ ENTWISTLE LAT...LON 3868 10117 3871 10094 3913 10097 3914 10131
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 23 min |
| Oct 31, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 49 min |
| Oct 31, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 58 min |
| Oct 31, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 46 min |
| Oct 31, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 41 min |
| Oct 31, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Oct 31, 5:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 min |
| Oct 31, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
| Oct 31, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 45 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.