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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 27, 2003Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2003, 5:52 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2003, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27The 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
1939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-36 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.

111 
WFUS53 KGLD 272352
TORGLD
KSC071-280030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
552 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM MDT

* AT 552 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER SOUTHEASTERN GREELEY
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING SOUTH AT
  20 MPH.

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

LAT...LON 3841 10157 3841 10173 3826 10177 3826 10156

KILLINGSWORTH

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins62 min
Jun 27, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace63 min
Jun 27, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas63 min
Jun 27, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita58 min
Jun 27, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas30 min
Jun 27, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan66 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.