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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Goodland, KS

June 20, 2004Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2004, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2004, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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 00:00Z, 5.5 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 9:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 9:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
835 PM MDT SAT JUN 19 2004

.DISCUSSION...MOIST UPSLOPE FLOW CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA AS
CANADIAN SURFACE HIGH OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA PULLS SLOWLY AWAY TO
THE EAST AND PROMOTES SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW. WILL KEEP CLOUDS ALL
NIGHT AND ADD AREAS OF FOG TO FORECAST. BEST CHANCE OF LOW
VISIBILITY IN FOG WILL BE OVER WESTERN TIER OF KANSAS COUNTIES AND
ALL OF COLORADO COUNTIES.  WILL MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE FOG ADVISORY IN
THIS REGION.  WITH WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST TONIGHT...HIGHER
DEWPOINTS NEAR 60 WILL GRADUALLY WORK THEIR WAY NORTHWEST INTO OUR
FORECAST AREA.

WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS IN SOUTHWEST AREAS TONIGHT GIVEN LATEST RADAR
TRENDS OVER EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. LAST EVENINGS WRF MODEL DID A
GOOD JOB HIGHLIGHTING THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH IT PROGS TO
THE ESE INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF OUR FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT.
WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS FOR SHOWERS AFTER 06Z FOR CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST.  OTHERWISE OVERNIGHT MIN TEMPERATURES AND OTHER GIRDS
LOOK OKAY.

&&

.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.
NE...NONE.
CO...NONE.

&&

DLF

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 11:15 AM CDT, 13 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1015 AM MDT SAT JUN 19 2004

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201200-
CHEYENNE KS-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-DECATUR KS-DUNDY NE-GOVE KS-GRAHAM KS-
GREELEY KS-HITCHCOCK NE-KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-LOGAN KS-NORTON KS-
RAWLINS KS-RED WILLOW NE-SHERIDAN KS-SHERMAN KS-THOMAS KS-WALLACE KS-
WICHITA KS-YUMA COUNTY CO-
1015 AM MDT SAT JUN 19 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EASTERN COLORADO
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 385. A
FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE
LARGE HAIL.

STORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL THEN MOVE EAST INTO NORTHWEST
KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA LATER TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HEAVY
RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA ON SUNDAY BRINGING
A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE TRI-STATE REGION. LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY EAST OF THE KANSAS-COLORADO BORDER.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP INTO A COMPLEX SUNDAY NIGHT WITH LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE
MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WITH THE GREATEST CHANCES DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEST OF HIGHWAY 385 IN COLORADO LATE
THIS AFTERNOON.

FS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 12:18 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	57 min
Jun 19, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 min
Jun 20, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004 Every 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.