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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2008, 5:39 PM CDT for Gove County, Graham County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 6 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
- May 29, 2008, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 S Hoxie, KS | RELAYED FROM SPOTTER NETWORK...RAIN WRAPPED WITH POOR CONTRAST. |
| May 29, 5:47 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Nw Park, KS | POSSIBLE RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO. |
| May 29, 6:04 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Grainfield, KS | |
| May 29, 6:13 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 W Park, KS | |
| May 29, 6:14 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Park, KS | RELAYED FROM SPOTTER NETWORK...HAIL COVERING INTERSTATE 70 NEAR PARK. |
| May 29, 6:15 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 8 N Quinter, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 292238 TORGLD KSC063-065-179-292315- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0049.080529T2239Z-080529T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 539 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GRINNELL... MOVING EAST AT 47 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF PARK AROUND 545 PM CDT... 8 MILES SOUTH OF TASCO AROUND 555 PM CDT... SAINT PETER AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF STUDLEY AROUND 605 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 84 AND 101. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 3915 9994 3904 10060 3921 10068 3946 10016 TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 252DEG 41KT 3917 10050 $$ FOLTZ
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGLD 292257 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MDT THU MAY 29 2008 KSC063-065-179-292315- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-080529T2315Z/ SHERIDAN KS-GRAHAM KS-GOVE KS- 556 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN GOVE...SOUTHWESTERN GRAHAM AND SOUTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTIES... AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF PARK...MOVING EAST AT 47 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SAINT PETER AND STUDLEY AROUND 605 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 84 AND 101. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 3915 9994 3904 10060 3921 10068 3946 10016 TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 252DEG 41KT 3923 10026 $$ FOLTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan | 17 hr |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 56 min |
| May 29, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 39 min |
| May 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 66 min |
| May 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 48 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 42 min |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 52 min |
| May 29, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 28 min |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 42 min |
| May 29, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 52 min |
| May 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 37 min |
| May 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan, Thomas | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan | 33 min |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 40 min |
| May 29, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 51 min |
| May 29, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 30 min |
| May 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 54 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.