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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Goodland, KS

October 31, 2000Greeley County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 3:14 PM MST for Greeley County, Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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, 3:14 PM MST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2000, 4:00 PM MST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greeley County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 312215
TORGLD

KSC071-181-199-312300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 400 PM MST

* AT 314 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF DEVELOPING TORNADOES.  THIS LINE
  EXTENDED FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF KANORADO TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  HORACE...OR FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND TO 11 MILES 
  SOUTHWEST OF TRIBUNE.  STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 40 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HORACE...TRIBUNE AROUND 325 PM MST
  RULETON AROUND 330 PM MST
  SHARON SPRINGS AROUND 345 PM MST
  GOODLAND AROUND 355 PM MST
  EDSON...WALLACE AROUND 400 PM MST

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...WESKAN.

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

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 3957 10205 3893 10207 3873 10206 3825 10-203
          3827 10158 3944 10150 3965 10151 3958 10152

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, 2:26 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, 3:19 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.