Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 3:12 PM CST for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 3:12 PM CST (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 48 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 21:13 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, 3:13 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 | |
| Oct 31, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Rexford, KS | Tornado developed near Thomas-Sheridan County Line, then moved into Sheridan County. No damage reported. |
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, 9.2 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
136 WFUS53 KGLD 312112 TORGLD KSC193-312200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 312 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 312 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MINGO...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF OAKLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HALFORD AROUND 325 PM CST GEM AROUND 330 PM CST REXFORD AROUND 335 PM CST 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 3919 10099 3916 10074 3958 10072 3958 10092
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, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 23 min |
| Oct 31, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 47 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.