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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 29, 2001Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 3:50 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min. 4 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 29, 2001, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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 29, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Oakley, KS	Brief tornado over open field with no damage observed.
May 29, 4:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Grinnell, KS
May 29, 4:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Grinnell, KS
May 29, 4:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Grinnell, 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
May 29, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 292050
TORGLD
KSC063-109-292115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
350 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 350 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MONUMENT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OAKLEY...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OAKLEY AROUND 400 PM CDT
  GRINNELL AROUND 415 PM CDT

A TORNADO WARNING MEAHNS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW!

$$

LAT...LON 3914 10103 3898 10105 3893 10060 3913 10051

BARKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	42 min
May 29, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	53 min
May 29, 2:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	38 min
May 29, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	58 min
May 29, 3:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wallace	3 hr
May 29, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	47 min
May 29, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	33 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.