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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Goodland, KS

April 10, 2001Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 10:14 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 10, 2001, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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
Apr 10, 10:45 PM CDT	Hail 1	Quinter, 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
Apr 10, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 110314
TORGLD
KSC063-110400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1014 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1014 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF GOVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...GRAINFIELD.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3900 10061 3887 10044 3904 10028 3914 10048

LAMMERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	38 min
Apr 10, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	41 min
Apr 10, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	39 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.