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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS

August 26, 2002Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2002, 2:01 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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 26, 2002, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2002, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 26, 2:05 PM MDT	Tornado F0	Benkelman, NE	Brief touchdown. No known damage.
Aug 26, 2:10 PM MDT	Hail 1	Benkelman, NE
Aug 26, 2:10 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 76 M	Benkelman, NE

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 26, 1:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 1929 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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The text

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

290 
WFUS53 KGLD 262001
TORGLD
NEC057-262030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
201 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 230 PM MDT

* AT 201 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING
  SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

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 4010 10132 4009 10159 4001 10160 4000 10132

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 12:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	54 min
Aug 26, 1:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	54 min
Aug 26, 1:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	63 min
Aug 26, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	61 min
Aug 26, 2:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	6 hr

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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.