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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS

August 14, 2001Gove County, Kansas

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 14, 8:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56 EGrinnell, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 206 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.