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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS

June 28, 2003Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2003, 8:06 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2003, 8:06 PM MDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2003, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 39 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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: 2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 290206
TORGLD
KSC071-290245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
805 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 802 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR THE HIGH SCHOOL 
 IN NORTHERN TRIBUNE.

IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST 
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE
IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS 
WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. IF SIRENS GO OFF...DO NOT RUN 
OUTSIDE. THE SIRENS MEAN YOU ARE IN DANGER. SEEK SHELTER

LAT...LON 3843 10195 3834 10167 3860 10157 3865 10183

KILLINGSWORTH

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	57 min
Jun 28, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	54 min
Jun 28, 7:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	66 min
Jun 28, 8:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	55 min
Jun 28, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	64 min
Jun 28, 10:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	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.