Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 9:15 AM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Apr 22, 2001, 9:15 AM CDT (14:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 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 22, 9:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Colby, 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 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, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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.
883 WUUS53 KGLD 221416 SVRGLD KSC193-221445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 915 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 915 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF LEVANT...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LEVANT AT 930 AM CDT MINGO AT 935 AM CDT COLBY AT 940 AM CDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...HALFORD...GEM AND BREWSTER. 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 3956 10139 3912 10139 3916 10083 3955 10080 MENTZER
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 Apr 22, 3:05 AM CDT, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 3:05 AM CDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
205 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001
MAJOR CHALLENGES WITH THIS PACKAGE AS SURFACE LOW CONTINUES TO
DEEPEN ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO AND 500 MB LOW EJECTS FROM
SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. THE QUESTIONS FOR THE GOODLAND COUNTY
WARNING AREA ARE...1) WILL TEMPERATURES DROP LOW ENOUGH FOR SNOW...
2) WILL WINDS MEET ADVISORY CRITERIA...3) WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF
SEVERE WEATHER.
PREFER THE ETA/AVN FOR THIS RUN...THOUGH NGM IS BECOMING MORE IN
LINE. BASED ON ETA...850-700 MB THICKNESSES DROP BELOW 1530 METERS
ACROSS YUMA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. MOISTURE WILL STILL BE IN PLACE
AT THIS TIME ACROSS THAT AREA AND WINDS WILL BE HOWLING. WILL ISSUE
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THERE LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS
AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH COLD FRONT WILL REACH WESTERN NEBRASKA/WESTERN
KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...THICKNESSES WILL NOT DROP INTO THE
SNOW CATEGORY UNTIL THIS EVENING. MOISTURE WILL BE EXITING THE AREA
THEN. ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE SOME SNOW...WILL NOT ISSUE ANY WINTER
HIGHLIGHTS ACROSS THE REST OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. HOWEVER...
SURFACE LOW WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN...AND THIS WILL BRING THE
EASTERN AREAS STRONG WINDS. WILL HOIST A WIND ADVISORY FOR ENTIRE
CWA TODAY.
SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. EARLY MORNING
CONVECTION CONTINUES OVER THE AREA...BUT JUST BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.
BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS AT 18Z BEFORE THE
COLD FRONT MOVES EAST. WITH MID LEVEL DYNAMICS IN PLACE AND SURFACE
BOUNDARY/DRY LINE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION...SEVERE STORMS ARE AGAIN
POSSIBLE. MODEL SHEAR PROFILES WOULD SUPPORT SOME SUPERCELLS. THE
ONLY CONCERN TO THIS SCENARIO IS THAT CONVECTION FURTHER SOUTH ROBS
ENERGY AND/OR PRODUCES ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CLOUD COVER TO INHIBIT
SURFACE HEATING EAST OF THE FRONT. WITH THIS MUCH DYNAMICS...
HOWEVER...WOULD PLACE MY BETS ON SEVERE STORMS.
.GLD...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY LATE MORN/AFTN COLORADO ZONE 90
WIND ADVISORY TODAY COLORADO ZONES 91..92
WIND ADVISORY TODAY NEBRASKA ZONES 79..80..81
WIND ADVISORY TODAY KANSAS ZONES 1>4..13>16..27>29..41>42
MENTZERIn the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
447 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0436 AM 11 N NORCATUR KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/22/01 DECATUR REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-221400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 457 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY... THE COMBINATION OF AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL LEAD TO THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. SOME STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL OCCUR EAST OF A TRENTON NEBRASKA TO RUSSELL SPRINGS KANSAS LINE. YOU SHOULD KEEP INFORMED ON THE WEATHER TODAY. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED THIS MORNING...STRONGER STORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 7:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-221700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 647 AM MDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 AM MDT (NOON CDT). THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH...CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR... NORTON...SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN...GRAHAM...WALLACE...LOGAN... GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE SURE TO KEEP INFORMED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MENTZER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 25 min |
| Apr 22, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 11:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 67 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.