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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 29, 2011Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2011, 6:23 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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: Aug 29, 2011, 6:23 PM MDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2011, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 29, 4:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 4:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 29, 10:58 AM MDT, 7 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1058 AM MDT MON AUG 29 2011

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301630-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1058 AM MDT MON AUG 29 2011 /1158 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2011/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE
TRI-STATE AREA. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM
THAT DEVELOPS. FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF A BENKELMAN TO TRIBUNE
LINE...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND EVEN A TORNADO...WILL BE
POSSIBLE FOR THESE LOCATIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING IN EASTERN COLORADO AND ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA THURSDAY
EVENING. AT THIS TIME THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:23 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
623 PM MDT MON AUG 29 2011

COZ091-092-KSZ013-300115-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-SHERMAN-
623 PM MDT MON AUG 29 2011

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...KIT
CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND SHERMAN COUNTY IN
NORTHWEST KANSAS...

AT 619 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARAPAHOE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.

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

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING
AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE A VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3935 10212 3916 10188 3913 10193 3913 10205
      3906 10205 3891 10229 3906 10247
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 226DEG 10KT 3904 10228

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 7:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	38 min
Aug 29, 7:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	67 min
Aug 29, 9:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	42 min
Aug 29, 10:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	39 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.