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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 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
- May 8, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 586 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGLD 082045 SVRGLD NEC145-082145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 345 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 345 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF MCCOOK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCCOOK AT 400 PM CDT INDIANOLA AT 415 PM CDT BARTLEY AT 425 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF WINDS STRONGER THAN 60 MPH AND HAIL LARGER THAN THE SIZE OF A DIME. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 4033 10074 4003 10074 4005 10021 4034 10021 LOCKHART $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 59 min |
| May 8, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 66 min |
| May 8, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 51 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.