Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2011, 5:07 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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
- May 24, 2011, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.
704 WFUS53 KGLD 242207 TORGLD KSC023-153-NEC057-087-242245- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0016.110524T2207Z-110524T2245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 507 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... WESTERN RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... WESTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 545 PM CDT/445 PM MDT/ * AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THESE DANGEROUS STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM STRATTON NE TO 7 MILES EAST OF HALE...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STRATTON NE...MAX...BENKELMAN...PARKS AND HAIGLER. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 34 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 56. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 50. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 27 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 189 AND 226. 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 3962 10110 3958 10204 4024 10204 4030 10109 TIME...MOT...LOC 2207Z 185DEG 27KT 4011 10123 3967 10199 HAIL <.75IN $$ ROBINSON
1 follow-up statement
828 WWUS53 KGLD 242242 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT TUE MAY 24 2011 KSC023-153-NEC057-087-242252- /O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-110524T2245Z/ RAWLINS KS-CHEYENNE KS-DUNDY NE-HITCHCOCK NE- 542 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN HITCHCOCK...DUNDY...CHEYENNE AND WESTERN RAWLINS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 445 PM MDT/545 PM CDT/... THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT. LAT...LON 3962 10110 3958 10204 4024 10204 4030 10109 TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 185DEG 27KT 4037 10120 3993 10196 $$ JRM
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, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 35 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, 5:14 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 |
| May 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 23 min |
Nearby
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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.