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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS

April 22, 2010Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2010, 2:06 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: Apr 22, 2010, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2010, 2:46 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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
Apr 22, 12:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Apr 22, 1:38 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:38 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 10:43 AM MDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1043 AM MDT THU APR 22 2010

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1030 AM MDT THU APR 22 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL,
DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF A
SLOW MOVING WARM FRONT THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE GREATEST
THREAT FOR TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS IS EXPECTED ALONG AND IMMEDIATELY
NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT WHICH IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ALONG OR SOUTH
OF INTERSTATE 70 THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

AS THE STORMS MOVE NORTH AND EAST ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA TONIGHT,
LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN
POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT BEFORE ACTIVITY DIMINISHES TOWARD
MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE FROM FRIDAY INTO
SATURDAY. HOWEVER...NONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:47 AM MDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
847 AM MDT THU APR 22 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0841 AM     HEAVY RAIN       NNW GEM                 39.43N 100.90W
04/22/2010  M1.26 INCH       THOMAS             KS   OTHER FEDERAL

&&

MWM

Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:52 AM MDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
952 AM MDT THU APR 22 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0952 AM     HEAVY RAIN       WINONA                  39.06N 101.25W
04/22/2010  E1.60 INCH       LOGAN              KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MWM

Local storm report, Apr 22, 10:06 AM MDT, 4 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1006 AM MDT THU APR 22 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0952 AM     HEAVY RAIN       WINONA                  39.06N 101.25W
04/22/2010  M1.60 INCH       LOGAN              KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MWM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 1:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	64 min
Apr 22, 2:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	64 min
Apr 22, 3:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	60 min
Apr 22, 1:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	44 min
Apr 22, 1:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	16 min
Apr 22, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace, Wichita	29 min
Apr 22, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	18 min
Apr 22, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	34 min
Apr 22, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	14 min
Apr 22, 5:53 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	29 min
Apr 22, 1:02 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	43 min
Apr 22, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
Apr 22, 4:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	35 min
Apr 22, 4:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	34 min
Apr 22, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
Apr 22, 4:39 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	18 min
Apr 22, 4:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	32 min
Apr 22, 5:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	37 min
Apr 22, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	26 min
Apr 22, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	34 min
Apr 22, 5:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma	3 hr
Apr 22, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	33 min
Apr 22, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
Apr 22, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	26 min
Apr 22, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.