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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 2:47 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2011, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:51 PM MDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 W Ruleton, KS | FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED ABOUT 1/4 OF THE WAY DOWN FROM CLOUD BASE. |
| May 24, 3:15 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 7 N Ruleton, KS | ESTIMATED 40-50 MPH WIND GUSTS ALSO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:27 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WFUS53 KGLD 242047 TORGLD COC063-KSC181-242115- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0013.110524T2047Z-110524T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 247 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... NORTHWESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 315 PM MDT * AT 243 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KANORADO...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RULETON. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 8. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3955 10189 3936 10176 3928 10208 3943 10212 TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 239DEG 22KT 3939 10201 HAIL 1.00IN $$ ROBINSON
1 follow-up statement
560 WWUS53 KGLD 242057 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 257 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 COC063-KSC181-242115- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-110524T2115Z/ KIT CARSON CO-SHERMAN KS- 257 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN SHERMAN AND EAST CENTRAL KIT CARSON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM MDT... AT 256 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RULETON...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 9. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3955 10189 3936 10176 3928 10208 3943 10212 TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 239DEG 22KT 3942 10194 HAIL 1.00IN $$ ROBINSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 55 min |
| May 23, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 57 min |
| May 23, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 60 min |
| May 23, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| May 23, 8:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| May 24, 1:22 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 23 min |
| May 24, 1:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 32 min |
| May 24, 2:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 19 min |
| May 24, 2:48 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 27 min |
| May 24, 3:17 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 28 min |
| May 24, 3:49 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:30 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 30 min |
| May 24, 11:22 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 22 hr |
| May 24, 1:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 22 min |
| May 24, 2:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 23 min |
| May 24, 2:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 37 min |
| May 24, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 65 min |
| May 24, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| May 24, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 18 min |
| May 24, 2:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 37 min |
| May 24, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 57 min |
| May 24, 3:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 35 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 62 min |
| May 24, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 18 min |
| May 24, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 41 min |
| May 24, 4:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 38 min |
| May 24, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 3 hr |
| May 24, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 23 min |
| May 23, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 67 min |
| May 23, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 58 min |
| May 23, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 62 min |
| May 23, 8:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 4 hr |
| May 24, 12:38 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 37 min |
| May 24, 1:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 31 min |
| May 24, 11:28 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| May 24, 11:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| May 24, 12:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| May 24, 12:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 23 min |
| May 24, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 21 min |
| May 24, 1:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 16 min |
| May 24, 1:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 32 min |
| May 24, 1:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| May 24, 1:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 41 min |
| May 24, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 24 min |
| May 24, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| May 24, 2:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.