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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Goodland, KS

July 4, 2005Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2005, 5:35 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: Jul 4, 2005, 5:35 PM MDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jul 4, 4:51 PM MDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 4:51 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
451 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

.DISCUSSION...UPDATED ZONES AND GRIDS TO INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 601 EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM MDT
(MIDNIGHT CDT).

&&

.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.KS...NONE.
.NE...NONE.
.CO...NONE.

&&

FS

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 10:50 AM MDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1050 AM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-051200-
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-
1050 AM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO BE FAVORABLE FOR WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS AND
SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY
CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA. A COUPLE SURFACE BOUNDARIES JUST
TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE AREA WILL HELP FOCUS THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM WYOMING AND
COLORADO WILL ALSO AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS. STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM KIT CARSON TO
IDALIA TO BENKELMAN THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST ACROSS THE REST OF
THE AREA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DUE TO THE INSTABILITY AND
FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE THROUGH THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT OVER
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL THREAT OVER EASTERN COLORADO.

DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO
BE POSSIBLE. LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL ON SUNDAY WILL
BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO LOCALIZED FLOODING AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THE WEATHER PATTERN THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT FAVORS STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN KANSAS DURING THE
DAY AND THE THREAT FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS
AT NIGHT.

THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY FEATURES A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN WITH
GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS AND NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL
TEMPERATURES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY AFTER NOON MDT (1 PM CDT).

DDT/BULLER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
408 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005

KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-050500-
CHEYENNE KS-DECATUR-DUNDY-GOVE-GRAHAM-GREELEY-HITCHCOCK-LOGAN-NORTON-
RAWLINS-RED WILLOW-SHERIDAN-SHERMAN-THOMAS-WALLACE-WICHITA-
408 PM MDT (508 PM CDT) MON JUL 4 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 601 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT
(12 PM CDT) FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

THE STORM PREDICTION HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 601
FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA EFFECTIVE
FROM 400 PM MDT (500 PM CDT) UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT).

IN NORTHWEST KANSAS THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...SHERMAN...THOMAS...
SHERIDAN...GRAHAM...WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...WICHITA.

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...RED WILLOW.

HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES.

FS

Local storm report, Jul 4, 4:50 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
450 PM MDT MON JUL 04 2005

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

0435 PM     HAIL             9 NE FLAGLER            39.39N 102.95W
07/04/2005  0.75 INCH        KIT CARSON         CO   PUBLIC

            HAIL COVERED THE GROUND

&&

MMEHLE

Local storm report, Jul 4, 4:54 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
454 PM MDT MON JUL 04 2005

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

0454 PM     HAIL             4 NW SEIBERT            39.34N 102.92W
07/04/2005  0.75 INCH        KIT CARSON         CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MMEHLE

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:04 PM MDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
504 PM MDT MON JUL 04 2005

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

0500 PM     HAIL             PALISADE                40.34N 101.11W
07/04/2005  0.75 INCH        HITCHCOCK          NE   PUBLIC

&&

MMEHLE

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:17 PM MDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
517 PM MDT MON JUL 04 2005

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

0517 PM     HAIL             PALISADE                40.34N 101.11W
07/04/2005  0.88 INCH        HITCHCOCK          NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MMEHLE

Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:34 PM MDT, 1 minute 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
Jul 3, 7:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	29 min
Jul 4, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	44 min
Jul 4, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	28 min
Jul 3, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	26 min
Jul 4, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	53 min
Jul 4, 5:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	58 min
Jul 4, 5:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
Jul 4, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	56 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.