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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Goodland, KS

July 10, 2013Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2013, 3:50 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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: Jul 10, 2013, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2013, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 55 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 21:53 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 10, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -362 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Jul 10, 2:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 10:53 AM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1053 AM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-111345-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1053 AM MDT WED JUL 10 2013 /1153 AM CDT WED JUL 10 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM GOVE KANSAS TO BENKELMAN NEBRASKA.
STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON IN EASTERN COLORADO AND
MOVE SLOWLY EAST INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

OTHER ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY THIS AFTERNOON EAST OF
THE BENKELMAN TO GOVE LINE. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY ALSO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM
THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AT THIS TIME WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:59 PM MDT, 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
259 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

KSZ041-102130-
GREELEY-
259 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 258 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF HORACE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3846 10205 3862 10205 3865 10205 3865 10179
      3843 10181
TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 274DEG 9KT 3855 10203

THEDE

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:14 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
314 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

KSZ041-102145-
GREELEY-
314 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 310 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

  LOCATIONS AND TIMES OF ARRIVAL INCLUDE...
  HORACE BY 335 PM MDT...
  TRIBUNE BY 340 PM MDT...

PENNY TO 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 3831 10205 3849 10205 3850 10205 3850 10156
      3828 10158
TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 272DEG 24KT 3840 10196

THEDE

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:42 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
342 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

KSZ041-102215-
GREELEY-
342 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 338 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HORACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 5 MPH.

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

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3830 10205 3844 10205 3844 10194 3826 10183
      3826 10204
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 318DEG 6KT 3836 10196

THEDE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	32 min
Jul 9, 6:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	34 min
Jul 9, 6:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	35 min
Jul 9, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	54 min
Jul 9, 7:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	50 min
Jul 10, 12:39 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	21 min
Jul 10, 1:08 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	37 min
Jul 10, 1:51 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Norton	24 min
Jul 10, 2:20 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	25 min
Jul 10, 2:52 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	23 min
Jul 10, 5:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	28 min
Jul 10, 2:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	31 min
Jul 10, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	31 min
Jul 10, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	33 min
Jul 9, 10:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	58 min
Jul 10, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	33 min
Jul 10, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	62 min
Jul 10, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.