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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 2013Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2013, 3:16 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 2013, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2013, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 275 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2013-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1970 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2013-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1970 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 9, 2:59 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:59 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1055 AM MDT TUE JUL 9 2013

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-101645-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1055 AM MDT TUE JUL 9 2013 /1155 AM CDT TUE JUL 9 2013/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG AND EAST OF A TRIBUNE TO
HILL CITY LINE BY MID AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

HEAT INDICES UP TO 107 WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON FOR
LOCATIONS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A NORTON COUNTY TO LOGAN COUNTY
LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING SOUTHWEST OF A YUMA COLORADO TO GOVE KANSAS LINE.
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:16 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
316 PM CDT TUE JUL 9 2013

KSZ027-028-042-092045-
LOGAN-WALLACE-WICHITA-
316 PM CDT TUE JUL 9 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...WICHITA
COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS...

AT 311 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALLACE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3869 10120 3863 10152 3879 10159 3886 10149
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 311DEG 8KT 3878 10151

THEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley30 min
Jul 9, 3:42 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryGLDGove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Sheridan15 hr
Jul 9, 3:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan36 min
Jul 9, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan29 min
Jul 9, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan54 min
Jul 9, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas64 min
Jul 9, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan55 min
Jul 9, 4:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman38 min
Jul 9, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas64 min
Jul 9, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan60 min
Jul 9, 5:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSheridan28 min
Jul 9, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan61 min
Jul 9, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham57 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.