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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

June 13, 2001Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2001, 8:38 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2001, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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.

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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 140139
TORGLD
NEC145-140230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTH OF MCCOOK...
  OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF OBERLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MCCOOK AROUND 915 PM CDT
  INDIANOLA AROUND 930 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

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

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

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 4013 10075 4001 10074 4000 10052 4017 10027
          4035 10050

SVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	58 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.