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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS

March 28, 2007Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 5:49 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2007, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2007, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 28, 5:52 PM MDT	TORNADO	2 Se Sharon Springs, KS	BRIEF TOUCH-DOWN
Mar 28, 6:05 PM MDT	TORNADO	3 Ne Sharon Springs, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 2:59 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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 282349
TORGLD
KSC199-290015-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0003.070328T2349Z-070329T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
549 PM MDT WED MAR 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 545 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SHARON
  SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY AROUND 600 PM MDT
  RURAL NORTHERN WALLACE COUNTY AROUND 610 PM MDT

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 134 AND 156.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3879 10186 3879 10163 3912 10154 3912 10190

$$

KILLINGSWORTH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 282356
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
556 PM MDT WED MAR 28 2007

KSC199-290015-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070329T0015Z/
WALLACE KS-
556 PM MDT WED MAR 28 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL
WALLACE COUNTY...

AT 555 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY AROUND 610 PM MDT...

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 134 AND 156.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3879 10186 3879 10163 3912 10154 3912 10190

$$

KILLINGSWORTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 12:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Rawlins and 2 more	17 hr
Mar 28, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	62 min
Mar 28, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	55 min
Mar 28, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	50 min
Mar 28, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	48 min
Mar 28, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	63 min
Mar 28, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	30 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.