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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2009, 2:19 AM CDT for Logan County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 8, 2009, 2:19 AM CDT (07:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2009, 3:01 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Logan County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 11:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1020 AM MDT TUE JUL 7 2009 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-081200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1020 AM MDT TUE JUL 7 2009 /1120 AM CDT TUE JUL 7 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND WEST OF A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE FROM ROUGHLY TRENTON NEBRASKA TO BURLINGTON AND CHEYENNE WELLS COLORADO. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH EARLY TONIGHT. ANOTHER WEATHER DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH INTO THE MCCOOK...HILL CITY AND NORTON AREAS LATE TONIGHT INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS PROVIDING A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 9:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 804 PM MDT TUE JUL 7 2009 KSZ041-080230- GREELEY- 804 PM MDT TUE JUL 7 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 804 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR HORACE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. KILLINGSWORTH
Local storm report, Jul 7, 9:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.