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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Goodland, KS

June 17, 2013Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2013, 6:30 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2013, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2013, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 17, 2:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2013-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2013-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 17, 5:53 PM MDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 5:53 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 11:03 AM MDT, 7 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1103 AM MDT MON JUN 17 2013

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-181500-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1103 AM MDT MON JUN 17 2013 /1203 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS
THE ENTIRE AREA FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. MANY
OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN PLACES THAT
RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL LAST NIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM TUESDAY
INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AFTER A DRY THURSDAY...THE CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE ON FRIDAY WITH THE GREATEST
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. A FEW OF THESE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
443 PM MDT MON JUN 17 2013

COZ091-092-172315-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-
443 PM MDT MON JUN 17 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEYENNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND KIT
CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...

AT 442 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE WELLS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

&&

LAT...LON 3920 10235 3902 10208 3884 10236 3889 10245
      3898 10253
TIME...MOT...LOC 2243Z 224DEG 14KT 3894 10239

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 5:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 17, 6:27 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 6:06 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley24 min
Jun 17, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace63 min
Jun 17, 7:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley32 min
Jun 18, 1:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton45 min
Jun 18, 1:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton50 min
Jun 18, 2:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham34 min
Jun 18, 2:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham34 min
Jun 18, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham38 min
Jun 18, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham64 min
Jun 18, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham39 min
Jun 18, 4:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham3 hr
Jun 18, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham32 min
Jun 18, 5:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove34 min
Jun 17, 7:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne29 min
Jun 17, 7:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne33 min
Jun 17, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.