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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2008, 2:13 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2008, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2008, 2:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 1:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 10:22 AM MDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1022 AM MDT THU JUN 19 2008 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201215- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1022 AM MDT THU JUN 19 2008 /1122 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. FLOODING MAY ALSO BECOME AN ISSUE OVER AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PREVIOUS DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. BURTIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 6:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 27 min |
| Jun 19, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.