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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

May 19, 2011Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2011, 3:17 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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: May 19, 2011, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 1795 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.4
Supercell composite: 15.9

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 19, 2:31 PM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:31 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 2:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
101 PM MDT THU MAY 19 2011

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201800-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
101 PM MDT THU MAY 19 2011 /201 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH
LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. HOWEVER...TORNADOES ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING FOR AREAS EAST OF A LINE FROM
OBERLIN TO GOVE KANSAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY WITH A
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
EAST OF A NORTON TO HILL CITY KANSAS LINE.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA DURING THE FIRST PART OF
NEXT WEEK. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS AT THIS TIME ALTHOUGH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL
ACCOMPANY ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED EAST OF A LINE FROM
OBERLIN TO GOVE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 3:17 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
217 PM MDT THU MAY 19 2011

KSZ016-192045-
GRAHAM-
317 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011

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

AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR PENOKEE...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3919 9990 3923 10012 3957 10003 3957 9986
      3954 9974
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 196DEG 21KT 3930 9998

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	48 min
May 18, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	60 min
May 18, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	26 min
May 18, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	49 min
May 18, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	61 min
May 19, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	30 min
May 19, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	61 min
May 19, 7:20 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	6 hr
May 18, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	63 min
May 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	26 min
May 18, 8:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	58 min
May 18, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	15 min
May 18, 9:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 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.