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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2011, 10:10 PM CDT for Gove 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
- Oct 7, 2011, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 10:36 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 Se Gove, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WFUS53 KGLD 080310 TORGLD KSC063-080345- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0063.111008T0310Z-111008T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1010 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES EAST OF THE MONUMENT ROCKS...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GOVE...GRAINFIELD AND QUINTER. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 92 AND 112. 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 3869 10032 3870 10068 3914 10052 3907 10014 TIME...MOT...LOC 0311Z 204DEG 37KT 3876 10053 HAIL 1.25IN $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
185 WWUS53 KGLD 080330 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 930 PM MDT FRI OCT 7 2011 KSC063-080345- /O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-111008T0345Z/ GOVE KS- 1030 PM CDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN GOVE COUNTY UNTIL 1045 PM CDT... AT 1029 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GOVE...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GOVE...QUINTER AND GRAINFIELD. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 92 AND 112. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3869 10032 3870 10068 3914 10052 3907 10014 TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 209DEG 35KT 3890 10046 HAIL 1.00IN $$ JRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 37 min |
| Oct 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas | 21 min |
| Oct 7, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 37 min |
| Oct 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 18 min |
| Oct 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 35 min |
| Oct 7, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 31 min |
| Oct 7, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 29 min |
| Oct 7, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 41 min |
| Oct 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 17 min |
| Oct 7, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 25 min |
| Oct 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 12 min |
| Oct 7, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 18 min |
| Oct 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 30 min |
| Oct 7, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Wichita | 54 min |
| Oct 7, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 64 min |
| Oct 7, 10:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan | 4 hr |
| Oct 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 34 min |
| Oct 7, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 49 min |
| Oct 7, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 44 min |
| Oct 7, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wichita | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 48 min |
| Oct 7, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 37 min |
| Oct 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 27 min |
| Oct 8, 12:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 37 min |
| Oct 8, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 38 min |
| Oct 8, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 34 min |
| Oct 8, 2:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Sheridan and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 26 hr |
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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.