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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 22, 2004Red Willow County, Nebraska

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 5:05 PM CDTHAIL 1Lebanon, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 22, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2004-05-22Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2004-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -191 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock61 min
May 22, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy58 min
May 22, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.