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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2005, 7:07 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 15, 2005, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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 15, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2864 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 160007 TORGLD KSC109-160045- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0035.050616T0007Z-050616T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 707 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LOGAN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY AT 720 PM CDT... A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN OBSERVED OR INDICATED BY RADAR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND COVER UP. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 3886 10125 3870 10122 3870 10082 3898 10082 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGLD 160024 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 624 PM MDT WED JUN 15 2005 KSC109-160045- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-050616T0045Z/ LOGAN KS- 724 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR LOGAN COUNTY... AT 721 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 3886 10125 3870 10122 3870 10082 3898 10082 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
000 WWUS53 KGLD 160042 RRA SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 643 PM MDT WED JUN 15 2005 KSC109-160053- /O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-050616T0045Z/ LOGAN KS- 743 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LOGAN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 745 PM CDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 3886 10125 3870 10122 3870 10082 3898 10082 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 58 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.