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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Goodland, KS

October 31, 2000Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 1:58 PM MST for Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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, 1:58 PM MST (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2000, 2:45 PM MST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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, 2:05 PM MST	Hail 0.75	Arapahoe, CO	Hail 3 to 4 inches deep on ground.
Oct 31, 2:15 PM MST	Tornado F1	Weskan, KS	Large tornado as it approached Wallace-Sherman County Line. A few utility poles were ripped out by tornado before it moved into Sherman County.

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, 1:30 PM MST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 312058
TORGLD

COC017-KSC199-312145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 245 PM MST

* AT 158 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARAPAHOE...OR
  ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WESKAN AROUND 205 PM MST

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

IF YOU ARE AT SCHOOL OR ANOTHER TYPE OF OFFICE BUILDING...MOVE
QUICKLY TO THE BASEMENT...INTERIOR HALL...STAIRWELL...OR BATHROOM. DO
NOT USE ELEVATORS AND KEEP AWAY FROM THE ENDS OF HALLWAYS. STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS AND GLASS DOOR[WAYS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER IN AUDITORIUMS
AND GYMNASIUMS.

$$

ENTWISTLE

LAT...LON 3882 10227 3870 10208 3913 10147 3912 10206
          3904 10205

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 1:21 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	39 min
Oct 31, 1:52 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	23 min
Oct 31, 2:12 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	48 min
Oct 31, 2:26 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	49 min
Oct 31, 2:47 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	58 min
Oct 31, 2:55 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	50 min
Oct 31, 3:14 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley, Sherman, Wallace	46 min
Oct 31, 3:19 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Oct 31, 3:59 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	61 min
Oct 31, 3:59 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	61 min
Oct 31, 4:01 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
Oct 31, 4:20 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	25 min
Oct 31, 4:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	45 min
Oct 31, 1:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	44 min
Oct 31, 2:06 PM MST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	54 min
Oct 31, 3:11 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 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.