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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 2005, 7:05 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2005, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2005, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:15 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 15 W Tribune, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 050105 TORGLD KSC071-050145- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0041.050705T0105Z-050705T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 705 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM MDT * AT 703 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HORACE BY 715 PM MDT... 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. LAT...LON 3860 10205 3826 10204 3824 10168 3857 10164 $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 050123 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 720 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005 KSC071-050145- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-050705T0145Z/ GREELEY KS- 720 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR GREELEY COUNTY... AT 714 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF HORACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY AROUND 730 PM MDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LAT...LON 3860 10205 3826 10204 3824 10168 3857 10164 $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 14 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.