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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS

May 24, 2011Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 2:53 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min. 3 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, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2011, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 3:00 PM MDT	TSTM WND GST 70	10 Sw Goodland, KS	EMPLOYEE ALSO REPORTED NICKEL-SIZED HAIL...THREE BROKEN WINDOWS AND SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO RESIDENCE.
May 24, 3:00 PM MDT	TSTM WND GST 70	10 Sw Goodland, KS	EMPLOYEE ALSO REPORTS NICKEL-SIZED HAIL
May 24, 3:06 PM MDT	TSTM WND GST 62	4 W Goodland, KS

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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

805 
WFUS53 KGLD 242053
TORGLD
KSC181-242130-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0014.110524T2053Z-110524T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
253 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 252 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF RULETON...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 9 AND 15.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 159 AND 166.

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 3914 10187 3914 10196 3926 10206 3929 10205
      3936 10176 3916 10168 3913 10187
TIME...MOT...LOC 2053Z 256DEG 30KT 3925 10185
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, 2:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	28 min
May 24, 2:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	18 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

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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.