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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

March 24, 2007Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 24, 2007, 6:08 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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
Mar 24, 2007, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2007, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 242308
TORGLD
NEC087-242345-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0002.070324T2308Z-070324T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
608 PM CDT SAT MAR 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR STRATTON
  NE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY AROUND 620 PM CDT

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 4016 10132 4007 10108 4035 10079 4035 10122

$$

STASSER
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KGLD 242322
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
523 PM MDT SAT MAR 24 2007

NEC087-242345-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070324T2345Z/
HITCHCOCK NE-
623 PM CDT SAT MAR 24 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR HITCHCOCK
COUNTY...

AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF
STRATTON NE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTH
AT 25 MPH.

A TORNADO WARNING BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION
HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND GET TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE
BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS.

LAT...LON 4016 10132 4007 10108 4035 10079 4035 10122

$$

STASSER
000 
WWUS53 KGLD 242346
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
545 PM MDT SAT MAR 24 2007

NEC087-242355-
/O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070324T2345Z/
HITCHCOCK NE-
645 PM CDT SAT MAR 24 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HITCHCOCK COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645 PM CDT...

THE TORNADIC STORM MOVED OUT OF HITCHCOCK COUNTY. THEREFORE THE 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS.

LAT...LON 4016 10132 4007 10108 4035 10079 4035 10122

$$

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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.