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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

April 6, 2001Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 1:44 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
Apr 6, 2001, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 6, 1:50 PM CDTHail 0.88Bogue, KS
Apr 6, 2:10 PM CDTHail 2Hill City, 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2001-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 061844
TORGLD
KSC065-061930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
144 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTH OF SAINT
  PETER...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF QUINTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 80
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SAINT PETER AROUND 155 PM CDT
  PENOKEE...MORLAND...STUDLEY AROUND 200 PM CDT
  HILL CITY AROUND 205 PM CDT
  BOGUE AROUND 210 PM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED 
WITH THIS STORM TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF THE POSSIBLE TORNADO.

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNnADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW!

$$

LAT...LON 3913 10018 3913 9971 3956 9962 3956 10018

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove25 min
Apr 6, 1:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Graham, Sheridan38 min
Apr 6, 1:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton49 min
Apr 6, 1:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton36 min
Apr 6, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton46 min
Apr 6, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita61 min
Apr 6, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wallace54 min
Apr 6, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman66 min
Apr 6, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas55 min
Apr 6, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita50 min
Apr 6, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas45 min
Apr 6, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
Apr 6, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas65 min
Apr 6, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita31 min
Apr 6, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas51 min
Apr 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Sheridan56 min
Apr 6, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur56 min
Apr 6, 6:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan, Thomas2 hr

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.