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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2004, 9:35 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2004, 9:35 PM MDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2004, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 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), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 100335 TORGLD KSC071-100430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 935 PM MDT MON AUG 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1030 PM MDT * AT 931 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HORACE AND TRIBUNE AROUND 1005 PM MDT... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3870 10176 3870 10204 3827 10205 3826 10170 $$ MCGUIRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 6:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 8:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 9:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 9:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 9:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 10:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 11:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.