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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Goodland, KS

September 5, 2005Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2005, 7:29 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 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
Sep 5, 2005, 7:29 PM MDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 2005, 7:48 PM MDT
In force
19 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), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 155 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2005-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 060129
TORGLD
KSC199-060200-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0042.050906T0129Z-050906T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
729 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 726 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHERN WALLACE COUNTY AT 740 PM MDT...

AT 724 PM MDT A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES 
WEST OF HIGHWAY 27 IN WALLACE COUNTY. 

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 3913 10196 3870 10189 3870 10148 3913 10148

$$

THEDE
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KGLD 060148
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
748 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005

KSC199-060158-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0042.000000T0000Z-050906T0200Z/
WALLACE KS-
748 PM MDT MON SEP 5 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WALLACE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER
APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3913 10196 3870 10189 3870 10148 3913 10148

$$

THEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman49 min
Sep 5, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur53 min
Sep 5, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur58 min
Sep 6, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita50 min

Nearby

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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.