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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 7:37 AM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Apr 22, 2001, 7:37 AM MDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 8:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
834 WUUS53 KGLD 221337 SVRGLD KSC181-221415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 737 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 815 AM MDT * AT 737 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EDSON AT 750 AM MDT ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...RULETON. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INDOORS. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY...AVOID USING TELEPHONES... COMPUTERS...AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. $$ LAT...LON 3918 10200 3917 10161 3955 10143 3957 10196 MENTZER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 25 min |
| Apr 22, 3:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 4:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 7:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 7:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 8:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 8:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 8:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 10:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.