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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Goodland, KS
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 50 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.