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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2011, 2:01 PM MDT for Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 14, 2011, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2011, 2:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
Counties Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jun 14, 11:53 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:53 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1153 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 .UPDATE... 1145 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 JUST COMPLETED ANOTHER UPDATE. SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED AND MOVED INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE AREA. COVERAGE IS MORE THAN ISOLATED SO INCREASED TO CHANCE IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE AREA AHEAD OF INCOMING SHORTWAVE TROUGH...JET MAX...AND AREA OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. BULLER && .DISCUSSION... 342 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 IMMEDIATE FORECAST CHALLENGES WILL BE HOW LONG THE ONGOING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING AND IF THEY WILL REDEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FORECAST CONCERNS MID WEEK ARE HOW MUCH TEMPERATURES WARM UNDER A RIDGE ALOFT FOLLOWED BY THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE WEEK AND OVER THE WEEKEND. THIS MORNING WILL START OFF WITH A FEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH PATCHY AREAS OF FOG AS A SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS REGION AROUND MID DAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE EAST AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES EAST. A STRONG AREA OF SUBSIDENCE MOVES IN ACROSS THE AREA ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE UPPER TROUGH...SO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. THE SHORT WAVE RIDGE BEGINS BUILDING OVER THE ROCKIES AND HIGH PLAINS TONIGHT...BUT IS NOT AS AMPLIFIED AS PREVIOUS MODEL RUNS INDICATED FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS MEANS TEMPERATURES MAY NOT WARM AS MUCH AS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT UPPER TROUGH...ALTHOUGH HIGHS IN THE 80S AND 90S ARE STILL EXPECTED FROM THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE LESS AMPLIFIED UPPER FLOW WILL ALSO MEAN THE REGION WILL BE MORE OPEN TO THE SHORT WAVE TROUGHS THAT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER FLOW AS IT FLATTENS DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK AND BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY BY THE WEEKEND. HAVE KEPT A MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST EACH EVENING FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS A RESULT. IT LOOKS LIKE AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE WARRANTED BETWEEN SUNDAY AND TUESDAY AS NEXT MAJOR UPPER TROUGH APPROACHES AND MOVES ACROSS THE REGION AS A LOW DEEPENS OVER THE NORTHERN TIER OF UNITED STATES DURING THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK. HAVE LEFT IT OUT FOR NOW AS CONFIDENCE IS LOW AS THAT SYSTEM IS STILL WELL OUTSIDE OF THE CONUS UPPER AIR NETWORK. LOCKHART && .AVIATION... 1145 AM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 FOR THE 18Z TAFS...SMALL CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OUT TO THE WEST OF KGLD. EXPECT SOME OTHER DEVELOPMENT BUT LOOKS LIKE THE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST MAY GET CLOSE TO KGLD SO PUT VCTS IN THERE FOR NOW. WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY UNTIL NEAR 00Z AND THEN BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING. OUTSIDE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. BULLER && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 12:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1211 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-151200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1211 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 /111 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS THAT OCCUR ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 COULD BECOME SEVERE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. ON THURSDAY...IT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. OTHERWISE...THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED BULLER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:04 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
104 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011
COZ092-KSZ027-041-141930-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-GREELEY-WALLACE-
104 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST
CENTRAL KANSAS...
AT 101 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.
&&
LAT...LON 3851 10198 3856 10205 3861 10205 3861 10214
3886 10252 3905 10234 3904 10230 3879 10180
TIME...MOT...LOC 1904Z 309DEG 34KT 3890 10233
BULLERLocal storm report, Jun 14, 1:41 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
141 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0136 PM HAIL WESKAN 38.86N 101.96W
06/14/2011 E0.75 INCH WALLACE KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BASSpecial weather statement, Jun 14, 2:01 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 201 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 KSZ027-028-041-042-142030- GREELEY-LOGAN-WALLACE-WICHITA- 201 PM MDT TUE JUN 14 2011 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 156 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF WALLACE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. && LAT...LON 3887 10121 3846 10135 3859 10198 3898 10179 TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 287DEG 33KT 3875 10158 BULLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 6:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 1:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 2:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 22 min |
| Jun 14, 2:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 28 min |
| Jun 14, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 10:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 12:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 53 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.