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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Goodland, KS

June 20, 20114 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2011, 5:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 1 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: Jun 20, 2011, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2011, 5:58 PM CDT
In force: 1 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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.

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 20, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

735 
WFUS53 KGLD 202257
TORGLD
KSC039-065-137-179-NEC145-210000-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0039.110620T2257Z-110621T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
557 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
  NORTHWESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
  WESTERN NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
  NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
  EASTERN RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 553 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.       
  THESE DANGEROUS STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM    
  OBERLIN TO JENNINGS...AND WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLAYTON...REAGER...JENNINGS...KANONA...NORCATUR...DANBURY...
  LEBANON...INDIANOLA AND BARTLEY.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 34 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 97 AND 110.

THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 86 AND 105.

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 4027 10019 4001 10019 4000 10006 3928 10006
      3928 10043 4036 10044 4035 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 131DEG 6KT 3978 10054 3962 10026
HAIL <.75IN
$$

ROBINSON

1 follow-up statement

282 
WWUS53 KGLD 202258
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
458 PM MDT MON JUN 20 2011

KSC039-065-137-179-NEC145-202308-
/O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-110621T0000Z/
SHERIDAN KS-NORTON KS-DECATUR KS-GRAHAM KS-RED WILLOW NE-
558 PM CDT MON JUN 20 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN RED WILLOW...NORTHWESTERN
GRAHAM...EASTERN DECATUR...WESTERN NORTON AND NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

WARNING IS BEING CANCELED DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUE. PLEASE IGNORE 
WARNING.  

LAT...LON 4027 10019 4001 10019 4000 10006 3928 10006
      3928 10043 4036 10044 4035 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 131DEG 6KT 3978 10054 3962 10026
$$

ROBINSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	55 min
Jun 20, 3:48 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more	23 hr
Jun 20, 3:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne	17 hr
Jun 20, 5:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	41 min
Jun 20, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace	39 min
Jun 20, 6:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Thomas, Wallace	41 min
Jun 20, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	51 min
Jun 20, 7:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	64 min
Jun 20, 7:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan, Thomas	67 min
Jun 20, 8:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Wallace	56 min
Jun 20, 9:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	47 min
Jun 20, 9:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	59 min
Jun 20, 9:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	26 min
Jun 20, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	44 min
Jun 20, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	61 min
Jun 20, 10:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	52 min
Jun 20, 11:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	25 min
Jun 20, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	58 min
Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	52 min
Jun 20, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	64 min
Jun 20, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	30 min
Jun 20, 1:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	6 hr
Jun 20, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	27 min
Jun 20, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	51 min
Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	34 min
Jun 20, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	18 min
Jun 20, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan, Thomas	6 hr
Jun 20, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	31 min
Jun 20, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	3 hr
Jun 20, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	29 min
Jun 20, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	35 min
Jun 20, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	17 min
Jun 20, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	42 min
Jun 20, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	63 min
Jun 20, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	60 min
Jun 20, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	65 min
Jun 20, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	56 min
Jun 20, 6:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	6 hr
Jun 19, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	47 min
Jun 19, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	61 min
Jun 19, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	59 min
Jun 19, 8:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	54 min
Jun 19, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	52 min
Jun 19, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	43 min
Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	37 min
Jun 20, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	58 min
Jun 20, 12:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	56 min
Jun 20, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	33 min
Jun 20, 3:16 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	104 min
Jun 20, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	65 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.