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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS

May 16, 2004Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: May 16, 2004, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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
May 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

815 
WFUS53 KGLD 162149
TORGLD
KSC109-162215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
448 PM CDT SUN MAY 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL
  LOGAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT

THIS TORNADO WARNING IS FOR A STORM PASSING TO THE SOUTH OF OAKLEY.  
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE REST OF 
LOGAN COUNTY EAST OF HIGHWAY 25.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 3899 10109 3885 10112 3887 10081 3903 10081

ENTWISTLE

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	43 min
May 16, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	27 min
May 16, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	46 min
May 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	45 min
May 16, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	24 min
May 16, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	32 min
May 16, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	67 min
May 16, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	31 min
May 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	62 min
May 16, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	37 min
May 16, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	59 min
May 16, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	59 min
May 16, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.