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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS

May 27, 2001Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT for Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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 27, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wallace, KS
May 27, 3:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Wallace, KS
May 27, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Wallace, KS	Brief tornado that was first observed as a funnel cloud.
May 27, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Russell Spgs, KS	Brief tornado that did no damage and occurred over open field.

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 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 272030
TORGLD
KSC109-199-272115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
330 PM CDT SUN MAY 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS
  WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT(315 PM MDT)

* AT 330 PM CDT(230 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 21 MILES WEST OF RUSSELL
  SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS AROUND 410 PM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

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!

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO! SOEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

$$

LAT...LON 3914 10154 3901 10170 3869 10134 3876 10095

SVEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	58 min
May 27, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	47 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	42 min
May 27, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	43 min
May 27, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	62 min
May 27, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	49 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	30 min
May 27, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	49 min
May 27, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	48 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.