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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Goodland, KS

May 19, 2013Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2013, 6:20 AM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins 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: May 19, 2013, 6:20 AM CDT (11:20 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 2765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 May 19, 3:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 3:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 5:46 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 1:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1230 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

COZ090-NEZ079-190700-
DUNDY-YUMA COUNTY-
1230 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO AND DUNDY
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

AT 1228 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ECKLEY TO 8 MILES
NORTH OF PARKS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 4035 10204 4035 10148 4004 10171 4003 10268
      4045 10238 4045 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0630Z 211DEG 33KT 4014 10253 4017 10176

ROBINSON

Special weather statement, May 19, 2:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
147 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

COZ092-190815-
CHEYENNE COUNTY-
147 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

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

AT 142 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF KIT CARSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

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 3904 10265 3885 10215 3862 10265 3876 10280
TIME...MOT...LOC 0747Z 229DEG 21KT 3875 10263

MARTIN

Special weather statement, May 19, 3:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
207 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

COZ091-190845-
KIT CARSON COUNTY-
207 AM MDT SUN MAY 19 2013

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

AT 203 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BETHUNE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

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 3957 10251 3957 10244 3951 10223 3920 10241
      3926 10263
TIME...MOT...LOC 0808Z 201DEG 17KT 3932 10248

MARTIN

Local storm report, May 19, 5:54 AM CDT, 26 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
May 19, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	61 min
May 19, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	29 min
May 19, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	34 min
May 19, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	53 min
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	20 min
May 19, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	12 min
May 19, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	17 min
May 19, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	20 min
May 19, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	19 min
May 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	15 min
May 19, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	35 min
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	31 min
May 19, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	18 min
May 19, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	20 min
May 19, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	18 min
May 19, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	17 min
May 19, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	19 min
May 19, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	37 min
May 19, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	35 min
May 19, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	43 min
May 19, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	35 min
May 19, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	43 min
May 19, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	28 min
May 19, 3:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min
May 19, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	59 min
May 19, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	79 min
May 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	21 min
May 19, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	19 min
May 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	39 min
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	30 min
May 18, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	25 min
May 18, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	31 min
May 19, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	30 min
May 19, 6:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	33 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.