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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 2:26 PM MST for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 min. 7 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, 2:26 PM MST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 3:15 PM MST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 2:30 PM MST | Hail 1.75 | Stratton, CO | |
| Oct 31, 2:32 PM MST | Tornado F2 | Ruleton, KS | Tornado destroyed abandoned house and garage as it entered southwest Sherman County from Wallace County. Tornado also ripped out utility poles and trees. It was likely the widest just after crossing the county line, and was briefly described as an "elephant tr |
| Oct 31, 2:37 PM MST | Hail 1.75 | Kanorado, KS | |
| Oct 31, 2:48 PM MST | Hail 0.88 | Ruleton, KS | |
| Oct 31, 2:54 PM MST | Tornado F1 | Ruleton, KS | Tornado touched down on farmstead and took off the roof of a sheep barn, flipped a trailer, destroyed a small buildings, and broke some windows. In addition, the tornado tore out trees, fences, and a utility pole. No one was injured at the residence. |
| Oct 31, 3:00 PM MST | Hail 1.75 | Ruleton, KS | |
| Oct 31, 3:01 PM MST | Tornado F0 | Caruso, KS | Brief tornado in open field causing no damage. |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
420 WFUS53 KGLD 312126 TORGLD COC063-KSC181-312215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 226 PM MST TUE OCT 31 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 315 PM MST * AT 226 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTH OF KANORADO...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KANORADO AROUND 245 PM MST RULETON AROUND 250 PM MST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OF ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. $$ ENTWISTLE LAT...LON 3904 10222 3900 10200 3956 10170 3958 10210
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, 1:58 PM MST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 47 min |
| Oct 31, 2:12 PM MST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 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.