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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

March 28, 2007Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2007, 7:11 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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 28, 2007, 7:11 PM MDT (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2007, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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.

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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 1774 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 10.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGLD 290111
TORGLD
NEC057-290145-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0009.070329T0111Z-070329T0145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 708 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MAX...OR
  ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

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 4000 10152 4000 10132 4034 10133 4034 10163

$$

FLOYD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGLD 290127
SVSGLD

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

NEC057-290145-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070329T0145Z/
DUNDY NE-
726 PM MDT WED MAR 28 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR EASTERN 
DUNDY COUNTY...

AT 723 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL 
DUNDY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING 
NORTH AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF DUNDY COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 4014 10157 4014 10133 4034 10133 4034 10163

$$

FLOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	30 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	4 hr
Mar 28, 7:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Dundy	4 hr
Mar 28, 7:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Dundy	61 min
Mar 28, 9:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Dundy	19 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.