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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS

June 1, 2003Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 2:26 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 1, 2003, 2:26 PM MDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Jun 1, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 012026
TORGLD
KSC199-012130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
226 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 226 PM MDT...A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WAS REPORTED
  FROM 27 MILES NORTH OF SHARON SPRINGS TO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WESKAN...OR FROM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF
  CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WESKAN AROUND 235 PM MDT
  SHARON SPRINGS AROUND 300 PM MDT
  WALLACE AROUND 310 PM MDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW

ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING. AT A LAST RESORT...A DITCH OR LOW SPOT OFFERS BETTER
PROTECTION THAN YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES EVEN IF
TIED DOWN. DO NOT USE A CAR TO TRY AND OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE
EASILY TOSSED AROUND AND CAN BECOME MISSILES IN TORNADIC WINDS.

LAT...LON 3911 10149 3912 10202 3872 10204 3872 10150

LOCKHART

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 2:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	53 min
Jun 1, 2:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jun 1, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	51 min

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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.