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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Goodland, KS

October 16, 2006Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 2006, 9:43 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
Oct 16, 2006, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2006-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 60 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2006-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins52 min
Oct 17, 4:57 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryGLDGove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas and 1 more3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.