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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2001, 6:55 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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
- Apr 6, 2001, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 66 E | Mc Cook, NE | Downed power lines in McCook along with plate glass window broken. |
| Apr 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 M | Mc Cook Arpt, NE |
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGLD 062355 SVRGLD NEC145-070100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 655 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCOOK TO 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DANBURY...OR FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON TO 9 MILES EAST OF ATWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MCCOOK AT 745 PM CDT INDIANOLA...DANBURY AT 800 PM CDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...LEBANON AND BARTLEY. 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 4001 10076 3999 10020 4034 10017 4036 10077 THEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 58 min |
| Apr 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 65 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.