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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS

June 13, 2001Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:32 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 13, 2001, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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
Jun 13, 8:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Oberlin, KS	The strong winds nearly destroyed a barn west of Kanona. Also, the winds blew windows out of houses and destroyed a small grain bin in the area.
Jun 13, 8:40 PM CDT	Hail 1	Oberlin, KS
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Norcatur, KS
Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Norcatur, 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
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 140132
TORGLD
KSC039-140215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
832 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF OBERLIN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OBERLIN...TRAER AROUND 840 PM CDT
  KANONA AROUND 855 PM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

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!

IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE
IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS
WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN
OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER!

$$

LAT...LON 3989 10075 3968 10070 3986 10019 3999 10019:
          4000 10048

SVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	64 min
Jun 13, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	41 min
Jun 13, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	51 min
Jun 13, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	51 min
Jun 13, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	36 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.