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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS

August 11, 2002Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 11, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 3 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 11, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 11, 8:20 PM CDTTornado F0Winona, KSBrief touchdown...no known damage
Aug 11, 8:20 PM CDTHail 3.5Winona, KS
Aug 11, 8:33 PM CDTHail 1Winona, 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 11, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2276 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.6

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The text

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

200 
WFUS53 KGLD 120116
TORGLD
KSC109-120200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
816 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 816 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WINONA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF OAKLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS AROUND 900 PM CDT

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR DETECTED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

&&

LAT...LON 3912 10108 3907 10134 3888 10123 3888 10088

RUBIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Aug 11, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita60 min
Aug 11, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins56 min
Aug 11, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan54 min
Aug 11, 8:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDThomas3 hr
Aug 11, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove64 min
Aug 11, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins60 min
Aug 11, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan61 min
Aug 11, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins47 min
Aug 11, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan43 min
Aug 11, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove39 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.