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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 16, 2011Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2011, 5:49 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 16, 2011, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 2230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -375 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 516 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Jun 16, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
235 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-171200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
235 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011 /335 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...FAR EASTERN COLORADO...AND AREAS IN
WESTERN KANSAS SOUTH OF A TRIBUNE TO HILL CITY LINE. THE MAIN
THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE
HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. THE GREATEST
THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXTEND GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM
JOES COLORADO TO SAINT FRANCIS KANSAS TO MCCOOK NEBRASKA.

A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY
COLORADO...GREELEY AND WICHITA COUNTIES OF KANSAS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A FEW STORMS
MAY BE SEVERE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OTHERWISE THE MAIN
THREAT WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED AFTER 5 PM MDT (6 PM CDT)
GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM JOES COLORADO TO SAINT FRANCIS KANSAS
TO MCCOOK NEBRASKA.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
449 PM MDT THU JUN 16 2011

KSZ029-162315-
GOVE-
549 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2011

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 545 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF DIGHTON...MOVING NORTH AT 35
MPH. STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS FROM THIS STORM ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR WELL
AHEAD OF THIS STORM...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 AND AREAS OF BLOWING
DUST EXPECTED.

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10017 3869 10067 3896 10079 3897 10017
      3872 10015
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 184DEG 29KT 3857 10038

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 11:31 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	10 hr
Jun 16, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Logan	33 min
Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	18 min
Jun 16, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	27 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	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.