Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 2012, 5:57 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 12 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
- Jul 17, 2012, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2012, 6:09 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
013 WFUS53 KGLD 172357 TORGLD KSC181-180045- /O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0014.120717T2357Z-120718T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 557 PM MDT TUE JUL 17 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 553 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWSTER. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS. 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 3956 10140 3947 10142 3947 10164 3957 10162 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 322DEG 5KT 3950 10150 HAIL 1.25IN $$ JRM
1 follow-up statement
296 WWUS53 KGLD 180009 SVSGLD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 609 PM MDT TUE JUL 17 2012 KSC181-180019- /O.CAN.KGLD.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-120718T0045Z/ SHERMAN KS- 609 PM MDT TUE JUL 17 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3956 10140 3947 10142 3947 10164 3957 10162 TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 322DEG 5KT 3949 10149 $$ JRM
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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.