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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 4:10 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 4:15 PM CDT | 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, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
098 WFUS53 KGLD 242110 TORGLD KSC023-181-242145- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0015.110524T2110Z-110524T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 310 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 345 PM MDT/445 PM CDT/ * AT 306 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF RULETON...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHERN CHEYENNE AND NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 175 AND 192. 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 3971 10158 3947 10141 3934 10191 3953 10202 TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 240DEG 22KT 3947 10184 HAIL 1.00IN $$ ROBINSON
1 follow-up statement
125 WWUS53 KGLD 242124 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 324 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 KSC023-181-242145- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-110524T2145Z/ SHERMAN KS-CHEYENNE KS- 324 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE AND NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM MDT/445 PM CDT/... AT 319 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHERN CHEYENNE AND NORTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 176 AND 192. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3971 10158 3947 10141 3938 10179 3956 10196 TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 240DEG 22KT 3951 10175 HAIL 1.00IN $$ ROBINSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 55 min |
| May 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 57 min |
| May 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 60 min |
| May 23, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 44 min |
| May 23, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| May 24, 2:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 23 min |
| May 24, 2:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 32 min |
| May 24, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 19 min |
| May 24, 3:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 27 min |
| May 24, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 28 min |
| May 24, 4:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 26 min |
| May 24, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 30 min |
| May 24, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 22 hr |
| May 24, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 22 min |
| May 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 23 min |
| May 24, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 37 min |
| May 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 65 min |
| May 24, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| May 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 28 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 18 min |
| May 24, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 37 min |
| May 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 57 min |
| May 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 18 min |
| May 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 41 min |
| May 24, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 38 min |
| May 24, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 60 min |
| May 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:52 PM CDT | 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.