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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2007, 2:58 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2007, 3:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Decatur County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:15 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 5 Sw Oberlin, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 191958 TORGLD KSC039-192100- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0073.070619T1958Z-070619T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF OBERLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OBERLIN AROUND 315 PM CDT... KANONA AROUND 350 PM CDT... 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF JENNINGS AROUND 355 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 71 AND 96. 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 3982 10073 3957 10072 3965 10019 3999 10028 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGLD 192018 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 218 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2007 KSC039-192100- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0073.000000T0000Z-070619T2100Z/ DECATUR KS- 318 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN DECATUR COUNTY... AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DRESDEN...OR ABOUT NEAR LEOVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WARNING BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND GET TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3970 10071 3957 10072 3965 10019 3978 10023 $$ KILLINGSWORTH
000 WWUS53 KGLD 192029 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 229 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2007 KSC039-192039- /O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0073.000000T0000Z-070619T2100Z/ DECATUR KS- 329 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DECATUR COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONG APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS. LAT...LON 3970 10071 3957 10072 3965 10019 3978 10023 $$
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, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 62 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 |
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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.