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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2010, 2:52 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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 26, 2010, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2010, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 26, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:24 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 124 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 KSZ001-002-262000- CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- 224 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 218 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MCDONALD...AND MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. THEDE
Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 133 PM MDT WED MAY 26 2010 KSZ014-029-262000- GOVE-THOMAS- 233 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAKLEY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THIS STORM INTENSIFIES AND BECOMES SEVERE. 50
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 53 min |
| May 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| May 25, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 4 hr |
| May 25, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 29 min |
| May 25, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 37 min |
| May 26, 3:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 5 hr |
| May 26, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 61 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.