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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS

May 27, 2001Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 4:26 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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 27, 2001, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 27, 4:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Russell Spgs, KS
May 27, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Winona, KS	Tornado stayed over open field.

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
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 272127
TORGLD
KSC109-272215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
426 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 426 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO OVER   
SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF LEOTI...  
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED 
BUILDING. AT A LAST RESORT...A DITCH OR LOW SPOT OFFERS BETTER 
PROTECTION THAN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES EVEN IF
TIED DOWN. DO NOT USE A CAR TO TRY AND OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE 
EASILY TOSSED AROUND AND CAN BECOME MISSILES IN TORNADIC WINDS.

$$

LAT...LON 3887 10144 3870 10148 3869 m10111 3869 10095

SVEN

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	58 min
May 27, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	47 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	42 min
May 27, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	43 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	45 min
May 27, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	62 min
May 27, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	49 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	30 min
May 27, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	48 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.