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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Goodland, KS

August 23, 2002Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2002, 4:57 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2002, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Aug 23, 5:00 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Goodland, KS	Tractor trailer blown off Interstate 70.
Aug 23, 5:01 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Goodland, KS
Aug 23, 5:04 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Goodland, KS
Aug 23, 5:06 PM MDT	Hail 1	Goodland, 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

333 
WUUS53 KGLD 232257
SVRGLD
KSC181-240000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
457 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 457 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
  NORTH OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RULETON AT 510 PM MDT
  GOODLAND AT 530 PM MDT
  EDSON AT 545 PM MDT

HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR
MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3912 10193 3913 10139 3956 10139 3957 10190

THEDE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
236 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

FORECAST CHALLENGES INCLUDE PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH SUNDAY
HOURS AS WELL AS CLOUD COVER AND EFFECTS ON TEMPERATURES THROUGH
SAME PERIOD.

12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWED STRONG UPPER LOW OVER NORTHWEST CONUS
WITH VORT MAX WORKING WITH GOOD MOISTURE OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
COLORADO MOVING EASTWARD. AT THE SURFACE A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY
EXTENDING EAST TO WEST JUST TO OUR SOUTH.

MODELS INITIALIZED WELL TODAY WITH REGARD TO POSITION AND STRENGTH
OF UPPER LEVEL WAVES TO MOVE THROUGH REGION IN UPPER FLOW THROUGH
NEXT 36 HOURS. HAVE OPTED TO GO WITH A BLEND OF ETA/AVN MODELS
THROUGH DAY 3 DUE TO PERSISTENCE AS WELL AS WITH BEST PORTRAYAL OF
MOISTURE AND STRENGTH OF SYSTEMS.

FOR TONIGHT EXPECT CONVECTION CURRENTLY OVER COLORADO AND NEW
MEXICO TO CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO WESTERN KANSAS. HIGH LAPSE RATES AND
GOOD CAPE VALUES ALONG WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN A
NIGHT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA.
WILL CARRY 40 TO 50 POPS OVER THE NORTH HALF OF FORECAST AREA TO
LIKELY POPS OVER THE SOUTH HALF. TEMPS WILL BE CLOSE TO GUIDANCE
IN THE 60S.

FOR SATURDAY WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS FOR LINGERING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING THE ENTIRE FORECAST
AREA. EXPECT SKIES TO BE MOSTLY TO PARTLY CLOUDY. THIS WILL TEND TO
KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN A BIT. WILL GO CLOSE TO GUIDANCE WITH
TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S.

FOR SATURDAY NIGHT MODELS PROG ANOTHER MUCH WEAKER UPPER SHORTWAVE
TO MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT. WITH SOME LEFTOVER
LOW AND MIDDLE LEVEL MOISTURE AND MODEST DYNAMICS MAY SEE A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS FORM IN THE LATE AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY EVENING.
TEMPS OVERNIGHT WILL BE AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 60S.

FOR SUNDAY WEATHER SHOULD BE DRIER AS A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE
MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. ALSO EXPECT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES TO WARM
UP A BIT REACHING INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S AT MOST LOCATIONS,

FOR THE PERIOD MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OF NEXT WEEK WILL MAKE VERY
LITTLE CHANGE IF ANY TO MY INHERITED FORECAST. MODELS SHOW WEAK
RIDGING ALOFT AND AT THE SURFACE WITH A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL
SHORTWAVES MOVING MORE SOUTHEAST ACROSS REGION IN UPPER FLOW.
EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO BE CLOSE TO NORMAL THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE
WEEK.

.GLD...NONE.

LAMMERS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 12:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1249 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1030 PM    HERNDON                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/02   RAWLINS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Aug 23, 1:37 PM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
137 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    10 WNW RUSSELL SPGS       KS   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   LOGAN                          LARGE ELM TREE BLOWN
                                          OVER. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 23, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
209 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    9 W RUSSELL SPGS          KS   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   LOGAN                          18 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
                                          AND A STEEL WIND MILL
                                          BLOWN OVER . REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 23, 2:09 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
209 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    9 W RUSSELL SPGS          KS   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   LOGAN                          18 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN
                                          AND A STEEL WIND MILL
                                          BLOWN OVER . REPORTED
                                          BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Aug 23, 2:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
210 PM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    10 W RUSSELL SPGS         KS   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/02   LOGAN                          LARGE ELM TREE BLOWN
                                          OVER. REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	56 min
Aug 22, 9:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	61 min
Aug 23, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	57 min
Aug 23, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	64 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.