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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Goodland, KS

August 5, 2010Thomas County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1059 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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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

BULLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 5:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDThomas23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.