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Tornado Warning 90, NWS Goodland, KS

September 15, 2010Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2010, 12:10 AM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2010, 12:10 AM CDT (05:10 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2010, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

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
Sep 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

114 
WFUS53 KGLD 150510
TORGLD
KSC063-150615-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0090.100915T0510Z-100915T0615Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1210 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT ROCKS...AND WAS
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  THE MONUMENT ROCKS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10016 3869 10081 3900 10081 3887 10015
      3870 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0510Z 306DEG 24KT 3889 10073

$$

024

3 follow-up statements

996 
WWUS53 KGLD 150514
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1114 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

KSC063-150615-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-100915T0615Z/
GOVE KS-
1214 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY UNTIL
115 AM CDT...

AT 1211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT ROCKS...AND WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10016 3869 10081 3900 10081 3887 10015
      3870 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0514Z 306DEG 24KT 3889 10071

$$

024

909 
WWUS53 KGLD 150547
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1247 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2010

KSC063-150615-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-100915T0615Z/
GOVE KS-
1247 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY UNTIL
115 AM CDT...

AT 1243 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOVE...AND WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10016 3869 10067 3895 10066 3887 10015
      3870 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0547Z 308DEG 20KT 3883 10055

$$

JERRYK

507 
WWUS53 KGLD 150614
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1214 AM MDT WED SEP 15 2010

KSC063-150623-
/O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0090.000000T0000Z-100915T0615Z/
GOVE KS-
114 AM CDT WED SEP 15 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GOVE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 
115 AM CDT...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
EXPIRED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT 
FOR THE AREA UNTIL 215 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3869 10016 3869 10067 3895 10066 3887 10015
      3870 10014
TIME...MOT...LOC 0613Z 308DEG 20KT 3874 10040

$$

024

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 Sep 14, 6:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 6:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
543 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

.DISCUSSION...
220 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

TONIGHT/S INCOMING S/WV TROUGH IS STILL ANTICIPATED TO FOSTER
ELEVATED CONVECTION OVERNIGHT PRIMARILY NORTH OF U.S. HWY 36 AND
EAST OF THE CWA.

NOT EXPECTING MUCH...IF ANY... DIURNALLY DRIVEN (SURFACE BASED)
CONVECTION GIVEN THE EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF CINH OVER THE REGION.
SFC TEMPS AND MOISTURE ADVECTION NORTH OF THE CURRENT QUASI-
STATIONARY FRONT THAT REMAINS DRAPED W-E BISECTING THE CWA ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO WARM SUFFICIENTLY TO OVERCOME THE INHIBITION.
INSTABILITY IS MEAGER SOUTH OF THE FRONT. THESE SCENARIOS ARE
SUPPORTED BY MOST OF THE CONVECTIVE RESOLVING MODELS AND THEIR
SUCCESSIVE RUNS. IT IS NOTEWORTHY THE LATEST HRRR AVAILABLE (17Z)
GENERATES AN ISOLATED CELL OVER YUMA CNTY BY 22/23Z AND WEAKENS
THE CONVECTION AS IT MOVES EAST THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING...IN
RESPONSE TO A LOW AMPLITUDE LEAD S/WV TROUGH. THE EVENING POPS ACCOUNT
FOR THIS SHOULD THE MODEL RUN VERIFY. ISENTROPIC LIFT AND MOISTURE
ADVECTION ABOVE THE FRONT SHOULD COMMENCE AFTER 03Z COUPLED WITH
MODEST MUCAPE ALLOWING FOR THE CHANCE OF SOME TSRA. WHAT ACTIVITY
DEVELOPS SHOULD BE CLEAR OF THE CWA BY DAWN. ADDED PATCHY FOG TO
THE GRIDS FOR MUCH OF THE EASTERN CWA NORTH OF THE FRONT GIVEN THE
LOW SFC T/TD SPREADS AND PERSISTENCE FROM THE PAST TWO
NIGHTS...PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF A PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH AND COLD
FRONT SLATE IN HERE VERY LATE TONIGHT.

THE COLD FRONT WILL CLEAR THE CWA DURING THE DAY TOMORROW AS THE
MAIN S/WV TROUGH PASSES WELL NORTH OF THE CWA. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR
A DRY DAY WITH FURTHER DRYING OF THE AIRMASS OVERNIGHT WED NIGHT,
PER PBL THETA-E FIELDS. FOR THR AND FRI DRY WX WILL CONTINUE. LOW
TO MID 80S ON THR AND UPR 80S/LOW 90S ON FRI GIVEN LEE TROUGHING
OVER ERN COLORADO. LATE FRI NIGHT ANOTHER COLD FRONT ASSOC WITH A
DEEP LOW OVER THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES IS PROGGED TO MOVE TOWARD THE
CWA. CONFIDENCE IS LOW ON HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO
THE CWA AS THERE IS A CONSIDERABLE SPREAD IN THE DETERMINISTIC
MODELS AND ENSEMBLE SOLUTIONS. FOR NOW I LEFT ALONE FRI NIGHT/S
SLIGHT CHANCE POPS AS THE FRONT IS SLATED TO AT LEAST MAKE IT INTO
THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES PRIOR TO 12Z SAT. THE MAIN CONCERN IS
OVER THE WEEKEND/S TEMPERATURES. THE GFS SOLUTION AND SOME OF THE
CONSENSUS MOS OUTPUT INDICATE HIGH TEMPS ONLY REACHING THE UPPER
60S AT LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-70 ON SAT. SOMETHING TO
MONITOR FOR NOW AS THE FCST HIGHS ARE CURRENTLY IN MID/UPR 80S.

FURTHER OUT IN TIME...IT APPEARS YET ANOTHER COLD FRONT MIGHT
ARRIVE IN HERE EARLY TUE MORNING PER THE 12Z GFS AND EC. THIS WAS
SUPPORTED BY THE HPC. STAY TUNED.

05
&&

.AVIATION...
534 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

FOR THE 00Z TAF...CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ONGOING OVER WASHINGTON
COUNTY COLORADO WITH A TREND NORTHEASTWARD. SHOULD NOT IMPACT KGLD
AND UNCERTAIN WHETHER IT WILL BE SUSTAINED LONG ENOUGH TO IMPACT
KMCK. HAVE OPTED TO OMIT VCTS/TSRA MENTION FOR THIS ISSUANCE FOR
KMCK BUT WILL MONITOR CLOSELY. FOCUS THEN SHIFTS TO POTENTIAL FOR
LOW STRATUS/FOG AT KMCK AFTER AROUND 09Z. HAVE MVFR CIGS/VSBY FOR
KMCK AFTER 09Z TRENDING DOWN TO IFR CIGS FROM 12Z THROUGH 16Z
BEFORE CONDITIONS RETURN TO VFR FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EFFECTIVE
PERIOD. HAVE VFR CIGS/VSBY FOR KGLD THROUGH THE ENTIRE EFFECTIVE
PERIOD WITH FEW-SCT MID LEVEL CLOUDS.

FOLTZ
&&

.GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KS...NONE.
NE...NONE.
CO...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 11:31 AM CDT, 12 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1031 AM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-151630-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1031 AM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010 /1131 AM CDT TUE SEP 14 2010/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE TRI STATE
AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING...WITH THE GREATEST THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER AT LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 36. LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH STRONGER STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS FROM TUESDAY NIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY
MORNING BEFORE MOVING EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THERE IS ALSO A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE DAY ON FRIDAY. SEVERE
WEATHER IS CURRENTLY NOT EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 14, 10:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
942 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

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

0935 PM     TORNADO          9 SSE BREWSTER          39.25N 101.31W
09/14/2010                   THOMAS             KS   STORM CHASER

&&

FOLTZ

Local storm report, Sep 14, 10:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
956 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

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

0952 PM     HAIL             7 N WINONA              39.16N 101.25W
09/14/2010  E1.75 INCH       THOMAS             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MLAMMERS

Local storm report, Sep 14, 10:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
958 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

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

0955 PM     TORNADO          8 NE WINONA             39.16N 101.16W
09/14/2010                   THOMAS             KS   STORM CHASER

&&

MLAMMERS

Local storm report, Sep 14, 11:23 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1023 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

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

1018 PM     HAIL             4 W MONUMENT            39.10N 101.07W
09/14/2010  E0.88 INCH       LOGAN              KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

FOLTZ

Local storm report, Sep 14, 11:35 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1035 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

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

1032 PM     HAIL             3 ENE MONUMENT          39.11N 100.94W
09/14/2010  E1.00 INCH       LOGAN              KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

FOLTZ

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 11:57 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1057 PM MDT TUE SEP 14 2010

KSZ014-015-150530-
SHERIDAN-THOMAS-
1157 PM CDT TUE SEP 14 2010

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SHERIDAN
COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 1153 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MINGO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3951 10072 3928 10059 3923 10100 3933 10106
TIME...MOT...LOC 0457Z 250DEG 15KT 3931 10093

FOLTZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	63 min
Sep 14, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	67 min
Sep 14, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
Sep 14, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	67 min
Sep 14, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	68 min
Sep 14, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	63 min
Sep 14, 11:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	66 min
Sep 14, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Sep 15, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	45 min
Sep 15, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	43 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.