Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2001, 8:10 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 24, 2001, 8:10 PM MDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 250210 TORGLD KSC071-250300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 810 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 810 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF HORACE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...TRIBUNE. A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVExD OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 3826 10204 3826 10157 3868 10157 3868 10204 VPAPOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Jul 24, 9:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 25 min |
| Jul 24, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 9:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jul 24, 11:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 11:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 12:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 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.