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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Goodland, KS

June 6, 2001Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2001, 11:36 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 6, 2001, 11:36 PM MDT (05:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2001, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGLD 070536
SVRGLD
NEC057-070615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1136 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1215 AM MDT

* AT 1136 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF MAX...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTH OF IMPERIAL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MAX AT 1155 PM MDT

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENsT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

$$

LAT...LON 4034 10184 4020 10181 4005 10132 4035 10133

ENTWISTLE

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 Jun 6, 8:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 8:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
856 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2001

EVENING THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF FA HAVE DIED OFF.  HOWEVER...STILL
HAVE WARM FRONT ALOFT NEAR NORTH PORTION OF FA WITH ONE MORE VORT
MAX TO COME ACROSS THE REGION.  KGLD VWP INDICATING SSE WIND OF 30
KTS MOVING INTO FRONTAL ZONE...SO WILL CONTINUE POPS AT 20 PERCENT
IN ADVANCE OF THE SHORTWAVE.

.GLD...NONE.

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.