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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2002, 4:55 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 26, 2002, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 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), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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.
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, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
460 WFUS53 KGLD 262155 TORGLD KSC153-262245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 455 PM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLAKEMAN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF ATWOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...ATWOOD...BEARDSLEY AND LUDELL. && LAT...LON 3979 10132 3966 10115 3981 10088 3995 10118
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 6:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Thomas | 4 hr |
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.