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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2011, 5:24 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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
- Jun 19, 2011, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2011, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:44 PM MDT | TORNADO | 10 N Benkelman, NE | TORNADO LASTED FOR 3 MINUTES. MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF THIS SAME TORNADO. |
| Jun 19, 5:47 PM MDT | TORNADO | 8 N Benkelman, NE | TORNADO WAS IN AN OPEN FIELD AND LASTED 4 MINUTES. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:04 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:10 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
814 WFUS53 KGLD 192324 TORGLD NEC057-200030- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0023.110619T2324Z-110620T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 524 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 523 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF PARKS...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY. 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 4012 10150 4011 10185 4035 10192 4035 10148 TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 176DEG 17KT 4021 10166 HAIL 1.25IN $$ 024
2 follow-up statements
399 WWUS53 KGLD 192332 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 532 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 NEC057-200030- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-110620T0030Z/ DUNDY NE- 532 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM MDT... AT 527 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF BENKELMAN...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. AT 530 PM MDT STORM CHASERS REPORTED A RAPIDLY ROTATING WALL CLOUD. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL DUNDY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4012 10150 4011 10185 4035 10192 4035 10148 TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 231DEG 20KT 4022 10158 HAIL 1.50IN $$ 024
201 WWUS53 KGLD 200029 RRA SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 629 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 NEC057-200039- /O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-110620T0030Z/ DUNDY NE- 629 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN DUNDY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM MDT/730 PM CDT/... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 4012 10150 4011 10185 4035 10192 4035 10148 TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 231DEG 20KT 4042 10125 $$ 024
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 5:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 5:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 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.