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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Goodland, KS

July 18, 2001Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2001, 10:53 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 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: Jul 18, 2001, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 2601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Jul 18, 4:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 4:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
330 PM MDT WED JUL 18 2001

CHALLENGES ARE EXTENT AND STRENGTH OF LATE PM AND EVENING TSRAS ALL
PERIODS.

SLIGHT DELAY IN PRODUCT/S DUE TO AWIPS REPAIRS. MODELS SIMILAR
TODAY. HAVE GONE WITH ETA FOR RESOLUTION.

RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE WITH LITTLE CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAY. HAVE GONE
WITH GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT FCST PD AS ALL MODEL(S) GUID VERY CLOSE.
BOX JUST ISSUED IN FAR EAST OF CWA NOTED BELOW. HIGHEST POPS THAT
AREA WITH 40. ELSEWHERE 30 IN SOUTH AND 20 ALL OTHERS.

MODELS SHOW S/W VORT MAX PASSING ACROSS AREA THROUGH EVENING FROM
EXTREME SOUTH TO EXTREME EAST THIS EVENING...FITS BOX WELL. ANOTHER
S/W...BUT WEAKER...THU PM. WILL GO AGAIN WITH 30 POPS IN EAST AND
SOUTH FOR THU EVENING.

FRI MODELS SHOW STRONGER S/W AGAIN APPROACHING FROM SW DURING DAY.
IN FACT AVN SHOWS CUT-OFF 70H LOW DEVELOPING IN SE CO. INCREASING
CLDS ALL DAY WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER MAX TEMPS IN WEST CWA AS A RESULT.
HAVE GONE WITH 30 POPS EVERYWHERE FRI EVEN FOR THIS REASON.

LITTLE CHANGE IN EXTENDED AS CEN PART OF COUNTRY REMAINS UNDER MAJOR
HIGH ALOFT. HOWEVER BEGINS TO WEAKEN EARLY IN WEEK AND BECOMES MORE
EAST-WEST ORIENTED AS ZONAL FLOW ACROSS NORTHERN PLAINS BEGINS TO
DRIFT SOUTH. DRY SUN THEN CHANCE TSRAS RETURN MON THRU WED. LITTLE
CHANGE IN TEMPS BUT SLIGHTLY COOLER BY MID WEEK.

THANKS TO DDC FOR ALL THEIR ASSISTANCE TODAY.

.GLD...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM CDT...KS COUNTIES
DECATUR...SHERIDAN...NORTON...GRAHAM...AND GOVE.

RJC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
539 PM MDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0528 PM    (MCK)MC COOK ARPT         NE   69 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01   RED WILLOW                     ON ASOS

0530 PM    MC COOK                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
07/18/01   RED WILLOW                     REPORTED BY STORM
              %                            SPOTTER.

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:00 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 18, 10:00 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 18, 10:01 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	41 min
Jul 18, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	53 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.