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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2011, 6:58 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 9, 2011, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:15 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 10 W Oberlin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
201 WFUS53 KGLD 092358 TORGLD KSC039-153-100030- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0051.110809T2358Z-110810T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 658 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF LUDELL...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HERNDON. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 60 AND 78. 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 3984 10055 3966 10072 3990 10102 3996 10095 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 306DEG 20KT 3991 10093 HAIL 2.75IN $$ THEDE
1 follow-up statement
673 WWUS53 KGLD 100011 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 611 PM MDT TUE AUG 9 2011 KSC039-153-100030- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0051.000000T0000Z-110810T0030Z/ RAWLINS KS-DECATUR KS- 711 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL DECATUR AND EAST CENTRAL RAWLINS COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF LUDELL...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN RAWLINS AND WESTERN DECATUR COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 36 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 60 AND 78. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3984 10055 3966 10072 3990 10102 3996 10095 TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 316DEG 32KT 3980 10082 HAIL 2.75IN $$ THEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 8:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 68 min |
| Aug 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.