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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 11, 2002, 9:13 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 11, 2002, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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.
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 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
990 WFUS53 KGLD 120213 TORGLD KSC153-120300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 911 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 911 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUDELL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF ATWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ATWOOD AROUND 925 PM CDT LUDELL AROUND 930 PM CDT PERSONS IN ATWOOD SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. && LAT...LON 3999 10121 3968 10093 4000 10087
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Aug 11, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.