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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 7:47 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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 9, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 100047 TORGLD KSC065-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 745 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 745 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA. A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 15 MILES NORTH AND 3 EAST OF STUDLEY. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR NORTON COUNTY. 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 LAT...LON 3956 10016 3940 10016 3940 9980 3956 9981 KILLINGSWORTH $$
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, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 66 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 |
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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.