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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS

May 8, 2004Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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
May 8, 2004, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 2004-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1905 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
1905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 090216
TORGLD
KSC137-090315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
916 PM CDT SAT MAY 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF NORTON. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR INDICATED
BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND COVER UP.

LAT...LON 3984 9998 3979 9964 4001 9968 3996 9996

BURKE

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton53 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton59 min
May 9, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
May 9, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace33 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.