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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

April 29, 2003Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2003, 3:58 AM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
Apr 29, 2003, 3:58 AM CDT (08:58 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2003, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
47 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), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2003-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

471 
WFUS53 KGLD 290858
TORGLD
KSC153-290945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
358 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 358 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF BLAKEMAN...
  OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BLAKEMAN AROUND 405 AM CDT
  ATWOOD AROUND 410 AM CDT
  LUDELL AROUND 425 AM CDT

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...BEARDSLEY.

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

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
GOODLAND.

LAT...LON 3977 10129 3965 10113 4000 10073 4001 10110

BULLER

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Apr 29, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur62 min
Apr 29, 4:37 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur38 min
Apr 29, 5:16 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur29 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.