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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 14, 2004Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2004, 11:03 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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 14, 2004, 11:03 PM MDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2004, 11:45 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:03 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 11:38 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	Tribune, KS

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
Jun 14, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 247 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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.

301 
WFUS53 KGLD 150503
TORGLD
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1103 PM MDT MON JUN 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT

* AT 1100 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTH
  OF HORACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HORACE AROUND 1120 PM MDT...
  TRIBUNE AROUND 1125 PM MDT...

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 3869 10204 3829 10204 3829 10161 3869 10157

$$

LOCKHART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Jun 14, 9:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
Jun 14, 10:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	57 min
Jun 14, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	63 min
Jun 14, 10:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	65 min
Jun 14, 10:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	52 min
Jun 14, 10:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	32 min
Jun 14, 11:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	48 min
Jun 14, 11:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	54 min
Jun 14, 11:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	67 min
Jun 15, 12:06 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	54 min
Jun 15, 12:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	58 min
Jun 15, 12:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	55 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.