Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Goodland, KS

June 25, 2001Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 11:19 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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 25, 2001, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 2463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 12.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 260419
SVRGLD
KSC109-260515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1119 PM CDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1119 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES EAST OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS AT 1215 AM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...WINONA.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60
MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

$$

LAT...LON 3877 10149 3872 10141 3898 10109 3914 10137
          3896 10147

BULLER

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
220 PM MDT MON JUN 25 2001

CONCERN WILL BE WITH TSRA DEVELOPMENT OVER THE TRI STATE AREA THRU
MIDWEEK.

ATTM TMPS WERE CLIMBING INTO THE 90S THIS AFTN WITH SOME HIGH
CLOUDINESS SPILLING INTO THE FA. LOW LVL MOISTURE REMAINS ABUNDANT
ACROSS THE CWA WITH DEW POINTS IN THE 50S AND 60S AND A SUBTLE DRY
LINE OVER THE WESTERN FA. A 5H/VORT MAX OVER SE COLORADO WILL SLOWLY
MOVE ACROSS THE FA LATE THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. 7H/TMPS WERE COOLER
AND 5H/HGHTS WERE WEAKER THAN ALL THE MODELS...INCLUDING THE
FAVORABLE ETA...FORECAST THIS MORNING. WITH THIS IN MIND I WILL KEEP
POPS IN THE FORECAST TONITE. DESPITE 850/WINDS BETTER THAN 30KTS
ACROSS THE EASTERN FA...I BELIEVE THEY WILL DE COUPLE AND WILL KEEP
THIS AREA BELOW THE BREEZY CATEGORY. YDAY MODELS HAD A COOL FRONT
FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE N FA TUESDAY MORNING. WITH TODAYS RUN THE
FRONT NEVER MAKES IT THIS FAR SOUTH.

THE STRONG 5H/RIDGE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING MOST PORTIONS OF THE FA
DRY THRU THE WEEKEND BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN SOMEWHAT. MID LVL MOISTURE
INCREASES ACROSS THE AREA AND WITH THIS CLOUDINESS AFTN HIGHS SHUD BE
A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN TODAY.

BY MIDDAY TUESDAY THE 5H/VORT MAX EITHER WEAKNS AND/OR REDEVELOPS
OVER NE NEW MEXICO BY LATE TUESDAY AFTN. A DRY LINE...LIKE TODAY
REMAINS ACROSS THE FA AND THE CHANCES FOR TSRA SHUD PERSIST INTO
TUESDAY EVENING.

WEDNESDAY A WEAK DISTURBANCE FROM THE SW US MOVES ACROSS THE CWA.
SOME SE PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE ALSO MOVES WITH THE DISTURBANCE
AND THE CHANCES FOR TSRA SHUD INCREASE EVEN MORE WED AFTN/EVE.

PART OF THE 5H/HIGH MOVES NORTHEAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES AND MAY
AID IN RETREATING A MID LVL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER THE SE US
WWARD ALL THE WAY INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THURSDAY. WITH MID LVL
MOISTURE REMAINING ACROSS THE CWA THE LOW MAY ACTUALLY INFLUENCE THE
FA WEATHER AND I WILL LEAVE TSRA IN THE FORECAST. THE LOW RETREATS
EVEN FURTHER WWARD AND ENDS UP IN SE KANSAS FRIDAY.

ITS NOT UNTIL THE WEEKEND WHEN ANOTHER 5H/HIGH BUILDS OVER THE SW
US AND WILL INFLUENCE THE CWA WEATHER SATURDAY. MOISTURE SHUD BEGIN
TO DECREASE AND AFTN HIGHS AGAIN WILL CLIMB INTO THE 90S SUNDAY AND
MONDAY.

.GLD...NONE.

VP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
723 PM MDT MON JUN 25 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    10 S ARAPAHOE             CO   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   CHEYENNE

0705 PM    10 SE CHEYENNE WELLS      CO   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   CHEYENNE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	60 min
Jun 25, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.