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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2007, 10:08 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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 13, 2007, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2007, 10:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
Nearby
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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.