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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 2:58 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 2:58 PM MDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2003, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KGLD 012058
TORGLD
KSC181-012200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
258 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
* UNTIL 400 PM MDT
* AT 258 PM MDT...A LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WAS REPORTED
FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF RULETON...OR
FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
GOODLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
EDSON AROUND 350 PM MDT
ANOTHER LOCATION IN THIS WARNING IS...KANORADO.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER NOW
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OF ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM.
LAT...LON 3956 10196 3940 10204 3915 10208 3914 10173
3915 10142 3957 10141
LOCKHART
$$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, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 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.