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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita 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
- May 10, 2010, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2010, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:36 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 603 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 10, 2:34 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:34 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 234 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010 .DISCUSSION... 233 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010 THE 20Z SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACES A LOW OVER SOUTHWEST KS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THE UPPER LOW CURRENTLY NEAR NORTHWEST KS. KGLD RADAR DETECTING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF ITR TO SOUTH OF HLC. A SHORTWAVE RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT/TUESDAY. THE RIDGE WILL SHIFT EAST TUESDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF AN UPPER LOW MOVING INTO WESTERN COLORADO. THIS UPPER LOW WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON THURSDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT/TUESDAY. ANOTHER LOW WILL MOVE INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE TUESDAY NIGHT AND REMAIN THERE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AS THE LOW PUSHES FURTHER SOUTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS ON THURSDAY. THE FORECAST ISSUES ARE POPS AND FOG FOR TONIGHT. CURRENT TORNADO WATCH 146 WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 00Z TUESDAY. TONIGHT/TUESDAY...A SHORTWAVE RIDGE WILL BE BUILDING INTO THE FA BEHIND THE EXITING LOW. SUBSIDENCE WILL TAKE OVER BEHIND THE EVENING SHOWERS AND STORMS MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN FA. EVENING POPS WILL RANGE FROM LIKELY IN THE FAR EAST TO SLIGHT CHANCE OVER THE REST OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FA. POPS WILL BE NIL FOR LATER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. CONSIDERED ADDING SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TO EASTERN COLORADO TUE AFTERNOON BUT FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE MOISTURE IS NOT FAVORABLE UNTIL LATER. FOG WILL PERSIST TONIGHT OVER THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE FA WHERE MIXING FROM THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT EXPECTED. PLAN TO LEAVE OUT FOG IN THE HLC AREA DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THERE. SOME FOG MAY TRY TO REDEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN FA BUT IT WILL BE BRIEF AND LOOKS MORE LIKE STRATUS ON THE SOUNDING SO WILL LEAVE FOG OUT OF THE GRIDS FOR THE WEST. TUE NIGHT...DYNAMICS FROM THE NEXT UPPER LOW OVER EASTERN UTAH WILL AFFECT THE FA. HOWEVER INSTABILITY IS WEAK SO WILL ADJUST WEATHER GRIDS WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER. SOUNDINGS INDICATE THE EVENING MAY BE RATHER QUIET BUT WILL NOT TRY TO GET TOO FANCY WITH TIMING. WED/WED NIGHT...BEST DYNAMICS ARE IN THE NORTHEAST DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY AND MOVE NORTHEAST WED NIGHT. PLAN TO KEEP CURRENT LIKELY/CHANCE POPS FOR THE TWO PERIODS. INSTABILITY IS MARGINAL SO WILL KEEP THUNDER OUT OF THE FORECAST. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW MOISTURE PROFILE BECOMES UNFAVORABLE FOR SHOWERS AFTER 06Z THU SO HAVE REMOVED THE OVERNIGHT SHOWERS AND REPLACED WITH SILENT POPS. THU/THU NIGHT...THE UPPER LOW MOVES NORTHEAST INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS WITH SUBSIDENCE OVER THE FA. PLAN TO CONTINUE NIL POPS FOR THESE PERIODS. MAX TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOL ON TUESDAY DUE TO UPSLOPE. MORE CLOUDS WILL MOVE OVER THE FA TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY WHICH WILL HOLD DOWN TEMPERATURES AS WELL. MORE SUN WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THURSDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 40S TO THE LOWER 60S. MIN TEMPERATURES WILL BE RELATIVELY MILD IN THE UPPER 30S/LOWER 40S THROUGH TUE NIGHT AND THEN COOL TO THE LOWER 30S WED NIGHT. MIN TEMPERATURES WILL WARM SOME INTO THE UPPER 30S/LOWER 40S THU NIGHT. IN THE EXTENDED...A RIDGE OVER THE AREA ON FRIDAY WILL SHIFT EAST FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY A SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVES THROUGH. A RIDGE WILL RETURN TO THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. OTHER THAN SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY THE MAIN ITEM OF INTEREST IS WARMING TEMPERATURES AT 850 AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT BY MONDAY. 850 TEMPERATURES RISE FROM THE LOWER TEENS TO THE LOWER 20S. THIS SHOULD YIELD SURFACE TEMPERATURES NEAR 80 DEGREES BY MONDAY. MIN TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 40S. FS && .AVIATION... 546 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010 FOR THE 18Z TAFS... AT KGLD...RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. FOG/STRATUS WILL PERSIST INTO EARLY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE...WHICH WILL LIKELY STALL OUT NEAR OR JUST WEST OF KGLD. THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND WITH NORTHEAST STORM MOTION COULD IMPACT THE TERMINAL WITH BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND PERHAPS HAIL. LATER THIS AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH WITH WINDS SHIFTING TO NORTHWEST AND THUNDERSTORMS ENDING. AT KMCK...WILL BE SOCKED IN WITH STRATUS AND FOG THROUGH MOST OF THE AFTERNOON. AS SUCH...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES APPEAR SMALL. COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH LATER THIS AFTERNOON....WITH GRADUALLY IMPROVING CIGS AND VISIBILITY. 024 && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 10:15 AM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1015 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-111200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1015 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010 /1115 AM CDT MON MAY 10 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A DRY LINE WHICH WILL BE LOCATED FROM IDALIA COLORADO TO GOODLAND AND RUSSELL SPRINGS KANSAS. ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THOSE AREAS...A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...INCLUDING SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORNADOES. A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ENDING THE THREAT OF STORMS BY MID EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT...FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. AT THIS TIME...NONE OF THESE STORMS IS EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AS THE MAIN THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 024
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 12:38 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1238 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM TORNADO 1 ENE LEOTI 38.49N 101.34W
05/10/2010 WICHITA KS EMERGENCY MNGR
BRIEF TOUCHDOWN IN OPEN FIELD
&&
MENTZERLocal storm report, May 10, 12:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1251 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1250 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 6 SW RUSSELL SPRINGS 38.85N 101.25W
05/10/2010 LOGAN KS EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
50Local storm report, May 10, 12:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1258 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1235 PM TORNADO MARIENTHAL 38.49N 101.21W
05/10/2010 WICHITA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN EAST EDGE OF TOWN ON GRANT STREET.
SHED DAMAGED.
&&
50Local storm report, May 10, 1:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
120 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0119 PM TORNADO 5 S RUSSELL SPRINGS 38.84N 101.18W
05/10/2010 LOGAN KS EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
50Local storm report, May 10, 1:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
131 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0130 PM TORNADO 15 SW OAKLEY 38.97N 101.05W
05/10/2010 LOGAN KS EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
50Special weather statement, May 10, 2:57 PM MDT, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 52 min |
| May 10, 12:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 42 min |
| May 10, 12:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 67 min |
| May 10, 1:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 59 min |
| May 10, 1:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 52 min |
| May 10, 1:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 35 min |
| May 10, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 42 min |
| May 10, 2:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 28 min |
| May 10, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 67 min |
| May 10, 5:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 23 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.