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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 2005Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2005, 10:33 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2005, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2005, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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
Jun 9, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1692 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 9, 10:27 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 10:27 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 11:38 AM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1038 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2005

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-101200-
CHEYENNE KS-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-DECATUR KS-DUNDY NE-GOVE KS-GRAHAM KS-
GREELEY KS-HITCHCOCK NE-KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-LOGAN KS-NORTON KS-
RAWLINS KS-RED WILLOW NE-SHERIDAN KS-SHERMAN KS-THOMAS KS-WALLACE KS-
WICHITA KS-YUMA COUNTY CO-
1038 AM MDT THU JUN 9 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY...

CONDITIONS ARE VERY FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH
COULD CONTAIN VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...WIND GUSTS ABOVE 70
MPH...AND TORNADOES. THERE ARE THREE MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN. ONE AREA
OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ON THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES AND MOVE
INTO EAST CENTRAL COLORADO BY MID AFTERNOON. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG A WARM FRONT FROM NEAR SAINT FRANCIS KANSAS TO
MCCOOK NEBRASKA BY LATE AFTERNOON. OTHER MORE ISOLATED STORMS ARE
EXPECTED ALONG A DRYLINE FROM GOODLAND TO LEOTI. ALL STORMS WILL MOVE
EAST AND NORTHEAST...EVENTUALLY AFFECTING MOST OF THE TRI STATE
REGION.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE HIGHEST THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL BE ALONG THE WARM
FRONT NEAR THE KANSAS/NEBRASKA STATE LINE....AND ALSO WITH ANY
ISOLATED CELLS THAT FORM ON THE DRYLINE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS.
DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM...BUT THE
HIGHEST THREAT WILL BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AND ALONG AND WEST OF
HIGHWAY 27 DURING THE EVENING.

IN ADDITION TO THE TRADITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER THREATS...THERE IS
ENOUGH MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 70 DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

FRIDAY LOOKS TO BE ANOTHER ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY SIMILAR TO
TODAY. THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CHANGE LITTLE THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH
THUNDERSTORMS AND SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON. DURING THE
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS THE THREAT WILL SHIFT TO HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLE FLOODING. FLOOD OR FLASH FLOOD WATCHES AND WARNINGS MAY BE
NEEDED.

FOR MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS...BUT
THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR HEAVY RAIN APPEAR TO BE LOW.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED AFTER 1 PM MDT (2 PM CDT) TODAY.

BURKE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
634 PM MDT THU JUN 09 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0631 PM     HAIL             PALISADE                40.34N 101.11W
06/09/2005  2.00 INCH        HITCHCOCK          NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0633 PM     HAIL             PALISADE                40.34N 101.11W
06/09/2005  1.75 INCH        HITCHCOCK          NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

0633 PM     TORNADO          15 SE GOVE              38.81N 100.29W
06/09/2005                   GOVE               KS   PUBLIC

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MMEHLE

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:54 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	30 min
Jun 9, 7:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Graham	3 hr
Jun 9, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	43 min
Jun 9, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	45 min
Jun 9, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	25 min
Jun 9, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	64 min
Jun 10, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	38 min
Jun 9, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.