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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

May 27, 2001Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 27, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Leoti, KS	Brief tornado that did no damage and occurred over open field.
May 27, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Leoti, KS	Tornado moved quickly and destroyed a small grain bin in Lydia, and also downed power lines.

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 272111
TORGLD
KSC203-272200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 411 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  LEOTI...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEOTI AROUND 435 PM CDT
  MARIENTHAL AROUND 450 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

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

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK 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 3869 10155 3859 10157 3835 10112 3862 10112
          3869 10130

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, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	45 min
May 27, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	62 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.