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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2013, 2:05 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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 31, 2013, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2013, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 31, 1:52 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 1:52 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 12:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1152 AM MDT WED JUL 31 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-011230- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1152 AM MDT WED JUL 31 2013 /1252 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO BURLINGTON COLORADO. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT WITH THE COLD FRONT LINGERING OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS REGION EACH DAY FROM THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS WEEK WILL BE ON THURSDAY WHEN A WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM EVENT IS FORECAST. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. DR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:47 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
147 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013
KSZ029-311915-
GOVE-
147 PM CDT WED JUL 31 2013
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE MONUMENT ROCKS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3870 10082 3892 10081 3893 10068 3891 10067
3870 10062
TIME...MOT...LOC 1847Z 326DEG 7KT 3883 10078
ROBINSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 14 min |
| Jul 31, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 3:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 19 min |
| Jul 31, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 16 min |
| Jul 31, 3:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 12 min |
| Jul 31, 10:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 29 min |
| Jul 31, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 28 min |
| Jul 31, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
| Jul 31, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 27 min |
| Jul 31, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 27 min |
| Jul 31, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 18 min |
| Jul 31, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 15 min |
| Jul 31, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 2:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 8 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.