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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 6:31 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 29, 2000, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 292332 TORGLD KSC023-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 631 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 631 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIRD CITY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...WHEELER AND ST. FRANCIS. A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF BIRD CITY. 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! $$ LOCKHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 31 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.