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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Goodland, KS

October 14, 2013Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2013, 1:43 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: Oct 14, 2013, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2013, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 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 18:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.

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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 Oct 14, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 14, 12:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1100 AM MDT MON OCT 14 2013

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-151315-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1100 AM MDT MON OCT 14 2013 /1200 PM CDT MON OCT 14 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE AS
WELL. THE AREA THAT WILL HAVE THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER WILL BE ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM TRENTON NEBRASKA TO
RUSSELL SPRINGS KANSAS.

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH TODAY. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO
35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER MOST OF THE
AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT. BEHIND THE FRONT...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL
INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. RAPIDLY
DROPPING TEMPERATURES ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THE FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ON TUESDAY NIGHT...LOW TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO 32 DEGREES OR
LESS WITH A HARD FREEZE EXPECTED AT MANY LOCATIONS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 14, 1:08 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 1:22 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 14, 1:25 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 1:27 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 14, 1:32 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 14, 4:56 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	16 hr
Oct 14, 11:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	28 min
Oct 14, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	28 min
Oct 14, 1:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	58 min
Oct 14, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	26 min
Oct 14, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	50 min
Oct 14, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	43 min
Oct 14, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	24 min
Oct 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	35 min
Oct 14, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	32 min
Oct 14, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	16 min
Oct 14, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	29 min
Oct 14, 3:26 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace	19 hr
Oct 14, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
Oct 14, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	33 min
Oct 14, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	35 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.