Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2004, 7:08 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 3 reports 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 15, 2004, 7:08 PM MDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 15, 7:26 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | Tribune, KS | |
| Jun 15, 7:30 PM MDT | TORNADO | 10 Nw Tribune, KS | |
| Jun 15, 7:35 PM MDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 7 E 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 15, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
691 WFUS53 KGLD 160108 TORGLD KSC071-160215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 708 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM MDT * AT 703 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HORACE AND TRIBUNE AROUND 725 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 3829 10202 3828 10158 3867 10158 3868 10202 $$ RJC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 8:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 8:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 9:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 9:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 9:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 58 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.