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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Goodland, KS

June 29, 2005Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 1:25 AM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2005, 1:25 AM CDT (06:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2005, 2:08 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:25 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2893 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 28, 9:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 9:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 11:19 AM CDT, 14 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1019 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291200-
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-
1019 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER 3 PM MDT (4 PM CDT) ALONG
AND WEST OF A LINE FROM KIT CARSON COLORADO TO STRATTON NEBRASKA.
UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND MOISTURE EJECTING OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST
WILL CROSS CENTRAL COLORADO BY MID AFTERNOON. WHILE THE ATMOSPHERE
WILL GENERALLY BE TOO WARM AND DRY ALOFT FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT...THIS STRONG SYSTEM WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE THUNDERSTORM
FORMATION ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FRONT RANGE BY EARLY AFTERNOON.
THESE STORMS WILL MOVE FROM THE SOUTHWEST...AND THIS WILL ALLOW FOR
SOME STORMS TO ENTER THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER DOES NOT APPEAR LIKELY.
HOWEVER...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PROMOTE THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY CONTINUE ON
THROUGH THE EARLY HOURS OF THE OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TO THE AREA. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS
THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY EAST OF A LINE FROM
MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO SHARON SPRINGS KANSAS.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY...WITH
WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

JOHNSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
943 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

COZ090-NEZ079-290410-
DUNDY-YUMA-
943 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 528 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM
MDT FOR YUMA COUNTY COLORADO AND DUNDY COUNTY NEBRASKA.

NEZ080-081-290410-
HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1043 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 528 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR
HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA.

BURKE
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1045 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

COZ090-NEZ079-290515-
DUNDY-YUMA-
1045 PM MDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA AND DUNDY
COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THE REST OF THE EVENING BUT THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME
SEVERE.

BULLER

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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.