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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2007, 2:43 PM CDT for Graham County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 19, 2007, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Graham County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:36 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 6 N Hoxie, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 191944 TORGLD KSC065-179-192045- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0072.070619T1943Z-070619T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 243 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... EASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 239 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF HOXIE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STUDLEY AROUND 320 PM CDT... MORLAND AND 7 MILES WEST OF PENOKEE AROUND 345 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE AT HOME...SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. LAT...LON 3955 10046 3918 10046 3917 9996 3954 9996 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 192006 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 206 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2007 KSC065-179-192045- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-070619T2045Z/ SHERIDAN KS-GRAHAM KS- 306 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR WESTERN GRAHAM AND EASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTIES... AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TASCO. THIS TORNADO WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TASCO...HOXIE AND STUDLEY AROUND 345 PM CDT... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 3955 10046 3918 10046 3917 9996 3954 9996 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Sheridan | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 45 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.