Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 2 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 29, 2000, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Brewster, KS | |
| Jun 29, 7:19 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Levant, 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 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 292337 TORGLD KSC193-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 636 PM CDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 636 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTH OF BREWSTER...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLBY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEVANT AROUND 655 PM CDT COLBY AROUND 705 PM CDT GEM...HALFORD AROUND 710 PM CDT MINGO AROUND 715 PM CDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...REXFORD AND MENLO. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND AND HAS BEEN VIEWED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN GOODLAND. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO! SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ 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, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 44 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 |
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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.