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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2013, 2:25 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 18, 2013, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2013, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 18, 12:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 115 PM MDT TUE JUN 18 2013 KSZ004-182000- NORTON- 215 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALVERT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. && LAT...LON 3986 9963 3959 9964 3980 10000 3996 9989 TIME...MOT...LOC 1916Z 304DEG 6KT 3981 9980 DLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 24 min |
| Jun 17, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 60 min |
| Jun 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 34 min |
| Jun 17, 8:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 29 min |
| Jun 17, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 33 min |
| Jun 17, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
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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.