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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

April 29, 2003Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2003, 5:16 AM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
Apr 29, 2003, 5:16 AM CDT (10:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2003, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-04-29Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-04-29The 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
1547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 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 291016
TORGLD
KSC039-291045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
516 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 AM CDT

* AT 516 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF KANONA...OR
  ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF OBERLIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NORCATUR...CLAYTON AROUND 525 AM CDT

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

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

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE OF
WEATHER INFORMATION FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS CONCERNING
THIS DANGEROUS SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

LAT...LON 3988 10040 3970 10040 3969 10018 3989 10019

BULLER

&

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 2:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Apr 29, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur62 min
Apr 29, 3:58 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins47 min
Apr 29, 4:37 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur38 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.