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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS

May 29, 2001Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2001, 4:13 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 29, 2001, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 4:25 PM CDTTornado F0Angelus, KSTornado destroyed empty grain bin and tore out a mulberry tree.
May 29, 4:32 PM CDTHail 0.88Hoxie, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 616 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 292113
TORGLD
KSC179-292200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF ANGELUS...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES EAST OF OAKLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HOXIE AROUND 440 PM CDT
  TASCO AROUND 450 PM CDT

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

$$

LAT...LON 3923 10071 3912 10071 3919 10017 3951 10016

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins42 min
May 29, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace53 min
May 29, 2:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace38 min
May 29, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace58 min
May 29, 3:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDWallace3 hr
May 29, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan25 min
May 29, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove33 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.