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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 5, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 5, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 335 PM MDT THU AUG 5 2010 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-061200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 335 PM MDT THU AUG 5 2010 /435 PM CDT THU AUG 5 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY AND THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT AS WEATHER DISTURBANCES MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF COLORADO AND SOUTH OUT OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL HAVE A HEIGHTENED THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS WELL WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENING FRIDAY. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ANOTHER WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA PRODUCING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN REMAINS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WOULD BE APPRECIATED. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
452 PM MDT THU AUG 5 2010
KSZ002-014-052315-
RAWLINS-THOMAS-
552 PM CDT THU AUG 5 2010
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND THOMAS
COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF BREWSTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
5 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.
&&
LAT...LON 3951 10098 3930 10120 3948 10139 3956 10138
3957 10139 3968 10133
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 309DEG 5KT 3955 10131
BULLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 23 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.