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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2000, 4:38 PM CST for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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, 4:38 PM CST (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Danbury, NE | Cone shaped tornado reported for short time. Path length may have been longer. However, no noticable damage observed. |
| Oct 31, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 1 | Bartley, NE | |
| Oct 31, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Bartley, NE | No damage reported with tornado as it lifted near northeast corner of the 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, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KGLD 312238
TORGLD
NEC145-312330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
438 PM CST TUE OCT 31 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 530 PM CST
* AT 438 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
DANBURY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF OBERLIN...MOVING NORTH AT 40
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
INDIANOLA AROUND 455 PM CST
BARTLEY AROUND 500 PM CST
VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE
IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS
WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN
OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER!
$$
ENTWISTLE
LAT...LON 4001 10053 4000 10032 4016 10020 4035 10018
4034 10055The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 36 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.