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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Goodland, KS

June 13, 2009Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2009, 10:43 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 13, 2009, 10:43 PM MDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2009, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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.

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 13, 3:59 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -403 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 13, 5:11 PM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 5:11 PM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 11:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	65 min
Jun 14, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.