Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
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, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Angelus, KS | Tornado destroyed empty grain bin and tore out a mulberry tree. |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hoxie, 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, 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.
- 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
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 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, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 33 min |
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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.