Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2001, 7:42 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 14, 2001, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Grinnell, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
634 WUUS53 KGLD 150043 SVRGLD KSC063-150145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 742 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRINNELL TO 12 MILES WEST OF THE MONUMENT ROCKS...OR FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OAKLEY TO 11 MILES NORTH OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... GRINNELL AT 750 PM CDT THE MONUMENT ROCKS AT 805 PM CDT GRAINFIELD AND GOVE AT 810 PM CDT PARK AT 820 PM CDT QUINTER AT 835 PM CDT THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN GOVE AND SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTIES. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 75 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 3912 10081 3870 10081 3869 10013 3913 10014 ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.