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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Oct 7, 2011, 5:25 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 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
- Oct 7, 2011, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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 Oct 7, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 11:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1030 AM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-081445- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1030 AM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 /1130 AM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR. STORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A COLD FRONT LOCATED FROM NEAR MCCOOK NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST TO TRIBUNE KANSAS. STORMS WILL THEN SPREAD NORTH OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY...MAINLY IN THE MORNING. AT THIS TIME...STORMS ON SATURDAY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 25 IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
402 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011
KSZ004-072115-
NORTON-
402 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALVERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
PENNY 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 3969 9963 3977 9984 4001 9971 4001 9963
4000 9962 3971 9962
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 206DEG 39KT 3982 9968
JRMSpecial weather statement, Oct 7, 5:25 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
425 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011
KSZ004-072245-
NORTON-
525 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
AT 522 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALVERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 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 3973 9973 3981 9995 4001 9984 4001 9980
4001 9963 4000 9962 3991 9962
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 205DEG 37KT 3985 9979
JRMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 7:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 20 min |
| Oct 6, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 21 min |
| Oct 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 29 min |
| Oct 6, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 23 min |
| Oct 6, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 35 min |
| Oct 6, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| Oct 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Oct 6, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Sheridan | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 36 min |
| Oct 7, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 13 min |
| Oct 7, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 8 min |
| Oct 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 19 min |
| Oct 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 12 min |
| Oct 7, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 24 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.