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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2005, 4:30 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
- May 6, 2005, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2005, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 062230 TORGLD NEC057-062300- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0007.050506T2230Z-050506T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 430 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 500 PM MDT * AT 425 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL DUNDY COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL WESTERN DUNDY COUNTY AT 440 PM MDT... RURAL NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY AT 450 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 4008 10202 4011 10156 4034 10144 4034 10203 $$ LOCKHART
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 062252 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 452 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005 NEC057-062300- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050506T2300Z/ DUNDY NE- 452 PM MDT FRI MAY 6 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR DUNDY COUNTY... AT 450 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL DUNDY COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. LAT...LON 4008 10202 4011 10156 4034 10144 4034 10203 $$ LOCKHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 44 min |
| May 6, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 32 min |
| May 6, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 48 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.