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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2006, 6:27 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2006, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2006, 7:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 8, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 241 PM MDT MON MAY 8 2006 .DISCUSSION...THE 20Z SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACES A TROUGH ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST FORECAST AREA AND A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST. DEWPOINTS WERE DROPPING INTO THE 40S BEHIND THE TROUGH WITH DEWPOINTS AS LOWS AS THE UPPER 20S IN THE FAR WEST ZONES. WATER VAPOR SHOWS THE MAIN UPPER LOW ACROSS CENTRAL WYOMING WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING AHEAD OF IT INTO THE NORTHWEST FORECAST AREA. LATEST LOOK OUT THE WINDOW SHOWS CONVECTION BEING SQUELCHED BY DRIER AIR MOVING IN FROM THE WEST. FLOW ALOFT WILL BE WESTERLY TONIGHT/TUESDAY AND THEN BECOME NORTHWEST TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A RIDGE/SUBSIDENCE WILL BUILD INTO THE ROCKIES THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND A FRONT TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. THERE IS ANOTHER FRONT THAT COMES THROUGH ON TUESDAY. MAIN CONSIDERATIONS FOR THIS FORECAST WILL BE POPS. THE SURFACE TROUGH IS MOVING RAPIDLY THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AND WILL NEED TO MONITOR ITS PROGRESS TO DETERMINE THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. A COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW THE TROUGH BUT INSTABILITY IS LACKING SO WOULD EXPECT SHOWERS. A SHORTWAVE WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS FRONT SO CANNOT RULE OUT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWER ACTIVITY SHOULD WIND DOWN AFTER MIDNIGHT. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FIRE ALONG THIS FRONT IN THE AFTERNOON AND PROGRESS ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD DYNAMICS ARE INDICATED FOR THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY AS THE MAIN UPPER LOW MOVES EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. GFS/NAM FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE A LACK OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND AM TEMPTED TO LOWER POPS TO SLIGHT CHANCE BUT THE SOUNDING IS PROBABLY TOO DRY. FOR NOW WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS FOR THIS EVENT. DYNAMICS MOVE AWAY BY 00Z THURSDAY SO WILL KEEP DRY CONDITIONS FROM WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. 850MB TEMPERATURES ARE WARMEST ON TUESDAY AND THEN COOL 4 TO 5 DEGREES FOR WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY. FOLLOWED MET GUIDANCE FOR MAX TEMPERATURES AND MAV FOR LOW TEMPERATURES. DAYS 4-7...A RIDGE WILL BE OVER THE ROCKIES DURING THIS TIME. AT THE SURFACE...LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS ON SATURDAY AND AN ASSOCIATED FRONT WILL FOCUS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY/SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE/SUBSIDENCE FOLLOWS ON MONDAY. MAX TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. LOWS WILL ALSO BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL IN THE MID TO UPPER 40S. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && FS
Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 11:45 AM CDT, 6 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1045 AM MDT MON MAY 8 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-091200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1145 AM CDT MON MAY 8 2006 /1045 AM MDT MON MAY 8 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE AREA...EAST OF A HILL CITY TO GOVE KANSAS LINE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH IN RESPONSE TO DAYTIME HEATING AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. ELSEWHERE IN THE TRI STATE AREA...ISOLATED HIGH BASED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING AFTER SUNSET WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND AS COOLER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF UPPER DISTURBANCES MOVE EAST OF THE ROCKIES AND ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. LOCKHART/JDK
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 60 min |
| May 8, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 64 min |
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 61 min |
| May 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 42 min |
| May 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.