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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Goodland, KS

October 31, 2000Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 2:52 PM CST for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min. 4 reports 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 31, 2000, 2:52 PM CST (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 31, 3:10 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Mingo, KS
Oct 31, 3:13 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Mingo, KS
Oct 31, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado F0	Mingo, KS	Brief tornado that caused no damage.
Oct 31, 3:24 PM CST	Hail 1	Gem, 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 31, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 312052
TORGLD

KSC193-312115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
252 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 252 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTH OF MINGO...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF OAKLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MINGO AROUND 310 PM CST
  GEM...HALFORD...MENLO AROUND 315 PM CST

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...REXFORD.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

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 3913 10104 3913 10072 3952 10071 3952 10094

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	39 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

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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.