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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Goodland, KS

June 18, 2014Decatur County, Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2014, 7:07 PM CDT for Decatur County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 18, 2014, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Decatur County, KS, Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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
Jun 18, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
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 Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 6:59 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 4:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
358 PM MDT WED JUN 18 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-191230-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
358 PM MDT WED JUN 18 2014 /458 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2014/

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. THERE WILL LIKELY BE TWO ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS...
ONE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND ANOTHER
TONIGHT FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 40. THE MAIN THREAT WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DAMAGING WINDS. A SECONDARY THREAT OF
LARGE HAIL EXISTS WITH A MAXIMUM HAIL SIZE UP TO PING PONG BALLS
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY FROM FRIDAY THROUGH
TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
329 PM MDT WED JUN 18 2014

KSZ029-182200-
GOVE-
429 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2014

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

AT 424 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3877 10082 3895 10070 3893 10037 3870 10052
      3870 10082
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 210DEG 27KT 3868 10077

DLF

Local storm report, Jun 18, 6:48 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
606 PM MDT WED JUN 18 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0548 PM     HAIL             GRAINFIELD              39.11N 100.47W
06/18/2014  E1.00 INCH       GOVE               KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

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RHUSTED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	24 min
Jun 18, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	47 min
Jun 18, 10:15 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	5 hr
Jun 19, 12:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	49 min
Jun 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	49 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.