Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2001, 9:05 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 24, 2001, 9:05 PM MDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2001, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 9:20 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Sharon Spgs, KS | Irrigation pivot tipped over. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 250305 TORGLD KSC199-250330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 905 PM MDT TUE JUL 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 905 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WALLACE AROUND 910 PM MDT ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...WESKAN. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WARNING MEANS T>HAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 3870 10204 3870 10149 3912 10148 3911 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, 8:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 50 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, 9:10 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.