Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Goodland, KS

Issued

Aug 25, 2002, 3:23 AM MDT (09:23 UTC)

Expired

Aug 25, 2002, 4:00 AM MDT

In force

37 min

Issued by

NWS Goodland, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yuma County, CO

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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WUUS53 KGLD 250923
SVRGLD
COC125-251000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
323 AM MDT SUN AUG 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 400 AM MDT

* AT 323 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABARR...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  SOUTH OF YUMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JOES AT 335 AM MDT
  KIRK AT 345 AM MDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...HEARTSTRONG.

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

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INDOORS. DO NOT STAND BY
WINDOWS. UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY...AVOID USING TELEPHONES THAT HAVE
CORDS ATTACHED TO THEM...COMPUTERS...AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 4000 10251 4000 10281 3959 10282 3958 10247

MENTZER

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 25, 2:30 AM MDT, 53 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
230 AM MDT SUN AUG 25 2002

FORECAST CONCERNS ARE PRECIPITATION CHANCES TODAY.

LARGE SCALE PATTERN SIMILAR TO THE PAST FEW DAYS WITH RIDGING OVER
THE SOUTHWEST STATES AND A TROUGH OVER THE NORTHWESTERN STATES. LEFT
EXIT REGION OF UPPER JET WILL WEAKEN AND MOVE EAST OF THE AREA AS
WEAK SUBSIDENCE/RIDGING APPROACH FROM THE SOUTH...HOWEVER CURRENT
CONVECTION OVER NORTHEAST CO WILL CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE INTO THE
AREA SO WILL ADD A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR TODAY. ETA 850MB TEMPS SUPPORT
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S...CLOUD COVER MAY KEEP TEMPS DOWN A FEW
DEGREES. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PCPN FOR THIS EVENING/TONIGHT
AS LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW INTERACTS WITH A WEAK UPPER JET. AVN IS
MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH BRINGING A 700MB SHORTWAVE OUT OF THE
CENTRAL ROCKIES AND INTO NORTHWEST KS LATER TONIGHT COMPARED TO THE
ETA...WHICH IS WEAKER AND MUCH SLOWER WITH THIS FEATURE.

SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL ALLOW SUBTLE DISTURBANCES TO RIDE OVER THE
SOUTHWEST STATES RIDGE AND INTO THE HIGH PLAINS...WILL KEEP A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF PCPN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE LONG TERM PERIODS. NO
CHANGE TO EXTENDED PORTION OF FORECAST.

.GLD...NONE.

MCGUIRE

In the hours before

COZ090-091-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-250445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1008 PM MDT SAT AUG 24 2002

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 634 THAT HAS BEEN IN EFFECT
FOR PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT). SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. HOWEVER THE
ATMOSPHERE HAS STABILIZED SUFFICIENTLY THAT NONE ARE EXPECTED TO
BECOME SEVERE.

RJC

COZ090-091-250930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
228 AM MDT SUN AUG 25 2002

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY WILL
MOVE INTO WESTERN YUMA COUNTY SOUTH OF YUMA AROUND 240 AM MDT AND
NORTHERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AROUND 315 AM MDT. PERSONS IN THIS AREA
SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
COVER IF A WARNING SHOULD BECOME NECESSARY.

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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.