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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2002, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -580 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
231 WUUS53 KGLD 190143 SVRGLD KSC065-190245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 844 PM CDT SUN AUG 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 844 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF SAINT PETER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF VODA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HILL CITY AT 855 PM CDT BOGUE AT 910 PM CDT NICODEMUS AT 915 PM CDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...MORLAND...PENOKEE AND STUDLEY. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS. && LAT...LON 3956 10017 3912 10017 3914 9960 3956 9960
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.