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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2006, 4:21 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 15, 2006, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 2938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:48 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1045 AM MDT THU JUN 15 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-161700- 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 THU JUN 15 2006 /1045 AM MDT THU JUN 15 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT STALLED BETWEEN CHEYENNE WELLS COLORADO AND STRATTON NEBRASKA MAY PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE WITH SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH SOUTH OF THE COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. AS TEMPERATURES RISE INTO THE 90S...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL ALLOWING THE RANGELAND FIRE DANGER INDEX TO REACH THE EXTREME CATEGORY. EXTREME FIRE DANGER MEANS THAT FIRES START QUICKLY...SPREAD FURIOUSLY AND BURN INTENSELY. ALL FIRES ARE POTENTIALLY SERIOUS. ALL OUTDOOR BURNING SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN AREAS WITH EXTREME FIRE DANGER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCKHART
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 PM MDT THU JUN 15 2006 KSZ014-152045- THOMAS- 311 PM CDT THU JUN 15 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 6 MILES SOUTH OF LEVANT...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLBY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. KILLINGSWORTH
Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:54 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:04 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:40 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 19 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:48 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 6:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wichita | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 4:28 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 17 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.