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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

July 6, 2003Cheyenne County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2003, 6:06 PM CDT for Cheyenne 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
Jul 6, 2003, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cheyenne County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2003-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-544 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 062306
TORGLD
KSC023-062345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
605 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING       
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.  A STORM SPOTTER CONFIRMED A DEVELOPING        
  TORNADO IN THIS AREA.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  AFFECTING RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3999 10204 3977 10204 3978 10141 4000 10141

DLF

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman37 min
Jul 6, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman60 min
Jul 6, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne42 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.