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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 2003Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:09 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2003, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

703 
WUUS53 KGLD 100109
SVRGLD
KSC193-100215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
809 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 809 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES
  WEST OF LEVANT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF COLBY...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LEVANT AT 820 PM CDT
  COLBY AT 840 PM CDT
  MINGO AT 850 PM CDT
  GEM AT 855 PM CDT
  HALFORD AT 900 PM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...REXFORD.

THE PUBLIC REPORTED 60 MPH WIND 4 MILES WEST OF BRESTER.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60
MPH OR MORE CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR DETECTED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3957 10139 3915 10138 3914 10074 3956 10073

LOCKHART

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
420 PM MDT MON JUN 9 2003

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM
CDT AND ADDED SEVERE WORDING. REMAINDER OF FORECAST ON
TRACK.

.GLD...NONE.

RJC

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 11:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 39 minutes before

FLUS43 KGLD 091629
HWOGLD
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1030 AM MDT MON JUN 9 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

A DRYLINE WILL BEGIN TO PUSH ACROSS THE TRI STATE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THIS DRYLINE WILL BE
VERY UNSTABLE AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 90S AND
DEWPOINTS WILL BE IN THE UPPER 50S AND LOW 60S. STORMS THAT FORM
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.  AN
ISOLATED TORNADO MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EXTREME EASTERN
PORTIONS OF THE TRI STATE AREA AS WIND PROFILES ARE MORE FAVORABLE
ACROSS THIS AREA. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ALONG
AND EAST OF A TRENTON TO LEOTI LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN TO SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS EVENING
AND INTO EARLY TUESDAY MORNING.  A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA AS THE FRONT PASSES...HOWEVER NO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.  THE AREA WILL REMAIN IN A
WEATHER PATTERN THAT IS FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

JRM/AIK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
400 PM MDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0354 PM    DRESDEN                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/03   DECATUR                        REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

KSZ003-004-015-016-029-NEZ081-100300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
400 PM MDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED
TORNADO WATCH 493 FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL 10 PM CDT. THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH:

IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...NORTON...GRAHAM...GOVE...SHERIDAN AND DECATUR

IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...RED WILLOW

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE PROVIDER FOR LATER
STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

RJC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	55 min
Jun 9, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	56 min
Jun 9, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham	43 min
Jun 9, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham	49 min
Jun 9, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	64 min
Jun 9, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	56 min
Jun 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	67 min
Jun 9, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	66 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	57 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.