Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Goodland, KS

Issued

Jun 25, 2002, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)

Expired

Jun 25, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT

In force

33 min

Issued by

NWS Goodland, KS

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cheyenne County, KS

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1042 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1042 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BIRD CITY AT 1100 PM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...WHEELER.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER 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 3997 10149 3995 10201 3962 10201 3959 10144

RJC

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 2:25 PM CDT, 8 hours 17 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
125 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 2002

TSTM CHANCES...TSTM TIMING AND TEMPERATURES ARE THE FORECAST
CHALLENGES.

TONIGHT...LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE SELY FLOW EXPECTED TO INITIATE TSTMS
ACROSS ERN CO...WHICH THEN WILL PROPAGATE SEWD THIS EVENING. WILL
INCLUDE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS ERN CO ZONES...DECREASING FURTHER EWRD.
STORMS MAY CONTINUE UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT SO WILL PUT IN A TIME
DELINEATOR.

WED...LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY APPEARS TO SET UP ACROSS THE
SRN HALF OF THE ZONES IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL INCLUDE HIGHEST POPS
ACROSS THE SRN ZONES. HIGHS SHOULD BE BACK INTO THE 90S WITH 850 TEMPS
NEAR 28C.

THU...LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE SELY FLOW SHOULD KEEP TSTMS CONFINED MOSTLY
TO THE ERN CO FTHLLS...BUT STORMS MAY DRIFT EWRD ACROSS THE ERN CO
ZONES SO WILL GO WITH LOW POPS THERE. HIGHS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES
WARMER WITH LESS CLOUD COVER.

FRI...NON DESCRIPT UPPER FLOW PREVAILS. SELY LOW LEVEL WINDS SHOULD
KEEP TSTMS NEAR THE CO FRONT RANGE...SO WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST.

SAT-TUE...UPPER RIDGING EXPECTED TO KEEP TSTM CHANCES MINIMAL. WITH
NO APPARENT BOUNDARIES AND LIMITED MOISTURE...WILL KEEP THESE DAYS
DRY. MRF MEX GUIDANCE HIGHS LOOK TOO COOL BASED ON MRF PROGGED 850
MB TEMPERATURES.

.GLD...NONE.

RUBIN

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.