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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 2003Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:26 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 9, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 100126
TORGLD
KSC065-100215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
826 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 826 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF HILL
  CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HILL CITY AROUND 835 PM CDT
  BOGUE AROUND 900 PM CDT

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 3954 9996 3927 9993 3923 9962 3955 9961

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, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham	43 min
Jun 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	66 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.