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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2009, 8:22 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 15, 2009, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2009, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Selden, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGLD 160122 TORGLD KSC039-153-179-193-160215- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0013.090616T0122Z-090616T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 822 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SELDEN...SEGUIN... NORTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF REXFORD... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF REXFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... REXFORD AROUND 900 PM CDT... SELDEN AROUND 910 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 MIDNIGHT CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN COLORADO AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. && LAT...LON 3951 10032 3928 10052 3961 10102 3976 10089 TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 307DEG 17KT 3964 10086 $$ LOCKHART
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas | 17 min |
| Jun 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Sheridan | 24 min |
| Jun 15, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.