Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2000, 7:28 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas; Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 min. 5 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
- Jun 22, 2000, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Francis, KS | |
| Jun 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Hale, CO | |
| Jun 22, 7:57 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Francis, KS | |
| Jun 22, 8:12 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | St Francis, KS | |
| Jun 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 M | Bird City Arpt, KS |
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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 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.