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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS

June 14, 2004Cheyenne County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2004, 10:04 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 14, 2004, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
41 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 247 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2004-06-15The 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
247 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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.

651 
WUUS53 KGLD 150304
SVRGLD
KSC023-150345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1004 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT

* AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST. FRANCIS...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WHEELER AROUND 1015 PM CDT...
  BIRD CITY AROUND 1030 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN
OBSERVED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 3997 10198 3978 10204 3958 10204 3958 10142
      3993 10152

$$

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne27 min
Jun 14, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace57 min
Jun 14, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins63 min
Jun 14, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman65 min
Jun 14, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley52 min
Jun 14, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace32 min
Jun 15, 12:03 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley42 min
Jun 15, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins48 min
Jun 15, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita54 min
Jun 15, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan67 min
Jun 15, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan54 min
Jun 15, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove58 min
Jun 15, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.