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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

May 9, 2001Decatur County, Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2001, 8:19 PM CDT for Decatur County, Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: May 9, 2001, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2001, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:20 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
May 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Norton, KS
May 9, 8:53 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Clayton, 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
May 9, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 100119
TORGLD
KSC039-137-100145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
819 PM CDT WED MAY 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
  WEST CENTRAL NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 819 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF JENNINGS...OR ABOUT 14
  MILES EAST OF OBERLIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLAYTON...NORCATUR AROUND 830 PM CDT
  REAGER AROUND 845 PM CDT

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

$$

LAT...LON 3985 10037 3967 10038 3964 9994 3986 9993

COLEMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	38 min
May 9, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	67 min
May 9, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	37 min
May 9, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	57 min

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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.