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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

May 10, 2010Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2010, 1:38 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2010, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 1:50 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	6 Sw Russell Springs, KS
May 10, 2:19 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 S Russell Springs, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this tornado warning; the first came 41 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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, 12:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

222 
WFUS53 KGLD 101838
TORGLD
KSC109-101945-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0019.100510T1838Z-100510T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
138 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3871 10148 3902 10148 3905 10147 3905 10110
      3870 10111
TIME...MOT...LOC 1838Z 220DEG 31KT 3875 10121

$$

/KILLINGSWORTH

2 follow-up statements

739 
WWUS53 KGLD 101843
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1243 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

KSC109-101945-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-100510T1945Z/
LOGAN KS-
143 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY UNTIL
245 PM CDT...

AT 136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A  
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF 
TORNADOES...EXTENDING FROM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL SPRINGS 
TO ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEOTI. ANY TORNADO THAT FORMS WILL 
MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3871 10148 3902 10148 3905 10147 3905 10110
      3870 10111
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 220DEG 31KT 3877 10118

$$

/KILLINGSWORTH

777 
WWUS53 KGLD 101858
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1258 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

KSC109-101945-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-100510T1945Z/
LOGAN KS-
158 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY UNTIL
245 PM CDT...

AT 155 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS 
THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RUSSELL SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST 
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A 
VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND 
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3871 10148 3902 10148 3905 10147 3905 10110
      3870 10111
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 220DEG 31KT 3883 10122

$$

/KILLINGSWORTH

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 10, 6:51 AM CDT, 6 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 6:51 AM CDT, 6 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
551 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

.DISCUSSION...
251 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

THERE WILL BE NUMEROUS FORECAST PROBLEMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
SATELLITE SHOWING A MORE AMPLIFIED FLOW DEVELOPING FROM THE CENTRAL
PACIFIC TO NEAR THE WEST COAST. THIS TRANSITIONS TO A MORE
PROGRESSIVE FLOW OVER THE COUNTRY. OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...
SHORTWAVE TROUGH THAT IS CAUSING THIS INITIAL BOUT OF ACTIVE
WEATHER IS MOVING THROUGH THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. STRONG LEE TROUGH
USHERING IN PLENTIFUL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.

AT JET LEVEL...THE NAM FOLLOWED BY THE ECMWF HAD THE JET WINDS THE
BEST ALONG THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA BUT THE MAIN CORE IS STILL OVER
THE OCEAN. THE GFS/UKMET WERE A LITTLE TOO FAR EAST THE HIGHER
SPEEDS. AT MID LEVELS...ALL THE MODELS BESIDES THE RUC WERE TOO FAR
EAST/NOT FAR ENOUGH SOUTH WITH OUR INCOMING WAVE FOR THE DAY BASED
ON SATELLITE. THE RUC AND THE NAM ON THE UPPER AIR ANALYSIS DID THE
BEST. AT LOW LEVELS...THE ECMWF WAS DOING THE BEST ON THE SURFACE
WIND/PRESSURE FIELD FOLLOWED BY THE NAM.

ENOUGH DIFFERENCES IN HOW THE MODELS FOR TODAY IN THEIR HANDLING OF
THE SURFACE EVOLUTION THAT THERE IS A HIGH DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY.
EARLIER THE NAM WAS FURTHER SOUTH THAN ANYONE WHICH MEANT IT KEPT
THE STRONGEST WINDS SOUTH OF THE AREA...KEPT THE STRATUS OVER MOST
OF THE AREA THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY...AND WAS FURTHER SOUTH AND
WEST WITH THE DRY LINE. THE ECWMF DID SUPPORT THIS AND EVENT THE
SREF AND OVERALL MODEL CONSENSUS. THE JET POSITION AND WARM AIR
ADVECTION PATTER ALOFT SUPPORTED THE FURTHER SOUTH. SURE ENOUGH THE
06Z RUC HAS COME IN AND IS TRENDING TOWARD THE NAM.

EARLY ON WILL USE A BLEND OF THE NAM/ECMWF/RUC AND THEN USE A
MODEL/PERSISTENCE BLEND AFTER THAT.

TODAY/TONIGHT...IF NAM IS RIGHT WILL HAVE MUCH COOLER MAXES THAN
CURRENTLY CALLED FOR. HOWEVER...ENOUGH THERE TO START GOING COOLER
FOR THE DAY. ALSO LOOK TO HAVE DRIZZLE/FOG THIS MORNING BEFORE THE
UPPER DYNAMICS START GETTING THERE ACT TOGETHER. STORMS COULD BE
STARTED BY 18Z. ALSO RAISED POPS AS WELL CONSIDERING THERE THE DRY
LINE/FRONT IS COMING IN AT. HIGHEST POPS WILL BE WEIGHTED IN THE
NORTHEAST. PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE DONE BY 00Z BUT LEFT IN A SLIGHT
CHANCE EARLY IN THE EAST TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY SLOWING.

TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT...RIDGING AT SURFACE AND ALOFT SHOULD KEEP THE
ENTIRE DAY QUIET. NOT SURE HOW MUCH CLOUD COVER WILL BE AROUND BUT
UPSLOPE FLOW INCREASES DURING THE DAY. WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES NEAR
TO SLIGHTLY BELOW GUIDANCE. MAIN LIFT AND PRECIPITATION REMAINS
WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE DAY.

BIG DIFFERENCE IN MODEL PRECIPITATION OUTPUT FOR THE NIGHT. INITIAL
LOOK AT THE MODELS WOULD SAY WE ARE GOING TO BE DRY SLOTTED.
HOWEVER...IT LOOKS AS IF A MAJOR WARM AIR ADVECTION DEVELOPS ACROSS
THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE NIGHT. THE GFS AND ESPECIALLY SHOW
THIS WELL ON THE 305 SURFACE. WILL UP THE POPS OVER MOST OF THE AREA.

WEDNESDAY/WEDNESDAY NIGHT...LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN LIFT/UPGLIDE IS OVER
THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE AREA DURING THE MORNING AND WILL
WEIGHT THE POPS IN THAT DIRECTION. AREA LOOKS TO BE SOCKED IN WITH
STRATUS PRIOR TO THE COLD FRONT ARRIVING. AS A RESULT WILL KEEP THE
COOL TEMPERATURES THAT ARE CURRENTLY FORECAST IN PLACE. DEPENDING
ON HOW MUCH CLOUD COVER/STRONG THE WINDS ARE...WEDNESDAY NIGHT COULD
BE CHILLY/MUCH BELOW NORMAL. WILL TREND THE LOW TEMPERATURES DOWN
SOME TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS.

THANKS TO ALL FOR THE COLLABORATION

BULLER
&&

.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, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 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, 1:26 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1226 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

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

1218 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     15 S LEOTI              38.27N 101.36W
05/10/2010                   WICHITA            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

50

Local storm report, May 10, 1:37 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1237 PM MDT MON MAY 10 2010

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

1231 PM     TORNADO          5 N MARIENTHAL          38.56N 101.21W
05/10/2010                   WICHITA            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

50

Local storm report, May 10, 1:38 PM CDT, 0 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

&&

MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 1:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	52 min
May 10, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	42 min
May 10, 2:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan	59 min
May 10, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	52 min
May 10, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	35 min
May 10, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	42 min
May 10, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	28 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	67 min
May 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	60 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.