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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Goodland, KS

June 11, 2002Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2002, 2:05 AM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
Jun 11, 2002, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2002, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2002-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 74 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2002-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 110705
TORGLD
KSC039-110730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
204 AM CDT TUE JUN 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 204 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  KANONA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OBERLIN...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF TORNADOES IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KANONA AROUND 220 AM CDT
  JENNINGS AROUND 225 AM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...DRESDEN.

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

IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE
IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS
WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN
OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER

&&

LAT...LON 3977 10065 3959 10060 3958 10018 3995 10022

FLOYD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur40 min
Jun 11, 2:31 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton44 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.