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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Goodland, KS

May 31, 2001Decatur County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 7:03 PM CDT for Decatur County, Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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: May 31, 2001, 7:03 PM CDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
May 31, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Norcatur, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 010003
SVRGLD
KSC039-137-NEC145-010045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
703 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
  WESTERN NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF LEBANON...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  EAST OF MCCOOK...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORCATUR...REAGER AT 725 PM CDT
  CLAYTON...JENNINGS AT 735 PM CDT
  LENORA AT 745 PM CDT

HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE 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 4016 10018 4013 10042 3961 10035 3961 10000

COLEMAN

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 May 31, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
241 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001

THE UPPER LEVEL LOW THAT WAS OVER THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON HAS LIFTED NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. COOL
AIR AND CLOUDINESS WAS OVER MUCH OF KANSAS...ALTHOUGH THE COOL AIR
WAS MIXING OUT AND MODIFYING THE AIRMASS OVER FAR WESTERN KANSAS
AND EASTERN COLORADO. STORMS HAD FORMED AHEAD AND IN THE VICINITY OF
A JET MAX OVER FAR EASTERN COLORADO WITH SEVERE STORMS FORMING WHERE
DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED LIFTED INDICES TO FALL TO AROUND -6 AT
20Z. THE FIRST REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAS ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED OVER
FAR EASTERN COLORADO BY 2030Z. THEREFORE...WILL MENTION SEVERE STORMS
THIS EVENING MAINLY OVER FAR EASTERN COLORADO. THE NGM AND MESO ETA
APPEAR TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE ON THE ABOVE MENTIONED OF THE MODELS
SURVEYED...SO WILL USE THIS BLEND IN THE SHORT TERM. THE AVN/MRF
STILL WITH REASONABLE RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY HANDLING THE OVERALL
PATTERN AND WITH REASONABLE INITIALIZATION...SO WILL FOLLOW. THE
ECMWF APPEARS TO BE DOING A POOR JOB WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER
LOW OVER SOUTHERN CANADA AND THE UPPER MIDWEST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE
MRF HAS LOWERED TEMPERATURES AGAIN FOR NEXT WEEK...TRENDING FOR A
COOLER MID WEEK PATTERN FOLLOWED BY A WARM UP LATE NEXT WEEK.
THEREFORE...WILL GO THIS SOLUTION FOR THE EXTENDED.

THE MESO ETA IS BRINGING A RATHER SIGNIFICANT BACK DOOR COOL FRONT
ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS FRIDAY NIGHT...SO BELIEVE THE AVN AND
NGM HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE 70S ON SATURDAY ARE TOO WARM. EXPECT
TEMPERATURES TO RISE NOT MUCH MORE THAN 70 DEGREES ON SATURDAY. THE
REST OF NGM GUIDANCE APPEARS REASONABLE...SO WILL FOLLOW.

.GLD...NONE.

SKIPPER

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 3:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
231 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
J
0227 PM    7 S FLAGLER               CO   1 INCH HAIL
05/31/01   KIT CARSON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, May 31, 4:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
341 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    12 S FLAGLER              CO   .88 INCH HAIL
05/31/01   KIT CARSON                      REPORTED BY STORM
                                           SPOTTER

0250 PM    10 S FLAGLER              CO   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/31/01   KIT CARSON                     REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0315 PM    7 NE WILD HORSE           CO   TORNADO
05/31/01   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0315 PM    7 NE WILD HORSE           CO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/01   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, May 31, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
405 PM MDT THU MAY 31 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
e
0405 PM    10 S FIRSTVIEW            CO   .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/01   CHEYENNE                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	43 min
May 31, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 31, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas	43 min
May 31, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	49 min
May 31, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	31 min
May 31, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	64 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.