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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 4:26 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Lebanon, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074
WFUS53 KGLD 222126
TORGLD
NEC145-222230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
423 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MCCOOK. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS 15 MILES SOUTH ALONG HIGHWAY 83. BOTH STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
MCCOOK BY 435 PM CDT
8 MILES NORTHWEST OF INDIANOLA BY 500 PM CDT
ALL LOCATIONS IN EASTERN PORTION OF COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM CDT
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AND NORTHWEST
KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4018 10075 4000 10075 4001 10019 4035 10019
4034 10075
BULLER
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 61 min |
| May 22, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 58 min |
| May 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 61 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.