Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2004, 9:59 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 4, 2004, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Decatur County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 10:09 PM CDT | TORNADO 0 | 2 W Jennings, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WFUS53 KGLD 050259 TORGLD KSC039-050345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 959 PM CDT FRI JUN 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 957 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DRESDEN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DRESDEN AROUND 1005 PM CDT... JENNINGS AROUND 1025 PM CDT... LAT...LON 3977 10059 3959 10060 3958 10026 3977 10022 $$ LAMMERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 74 min |
| Jun 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 80 min |
| Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 35 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.