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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Goodland, KS

June 27, 2014Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2014, 7:02 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 27, 2014, 7:02 PM MDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2014, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 27, 2:47 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 2653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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 27, 5:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 5:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 10:08 AM MDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1008 AM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-281530-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1008 AM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014 /1108 AM CDT FRI JUN 27 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY BY MID TO LATE
AFTERNOON EAST OF THE COLORADO BORDER AS A VOLATILE ENVIRONMENT
SETS UP. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF SIGNIFICANT HAIL TO
THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND
TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED. FOR EAST COLORADO...STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED WITH LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
PING PONG BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AS THE MAIN THREATS.
STORMS CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING AND SHOULD EXIT THE REGION EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...
SLOW STORM MOVEMENTS MAY LEAD TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR LOCATIONS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN
RECENTLY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NORTH
AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BENKELMAN NEBRASKA TO HOXIE KANSAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
520 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

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

0519 PM     HAIL             6 N YUMA                40.21N 102.72W
06/27/2014  M1.00 INCH       YUMA               CO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            A FEW QUARTER SIZE STONES FALL NOW.

&&

JJM

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
523 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

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

0505 PM     TSTM WND GST     10 NNE MCDONALD         39.92N 101.30W
06/27/2014  E60.00 MPH       RAWLINS            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED ROUGHLY 10 N OF MCDONALD AND 2 EAST ON ROAD D.
            LASTED ABOUT 10 MINUTES

0505 PM     HAIL             10 NNE MCDONALD         39.92N 101.30W
06/27/2014  E0.75 INCH       RAWLINS            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED ROUGHLY 10 N OF MCDONALD AND 2 E ON ROAD D.

&&

LUNDQUIST

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
525 PM MDT FRI JUN 27 2014

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

0520 PM     TSTM WND GST     4 N ATWOOD              39.87N 101.04W
06/27/2014  M63 MPH          RAWLINS            KS   MESONET

&&

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:08 PM MDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:53 PM MDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:59 PM MDT, 3 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
Jun 27, 6:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	67 min
Jun 27, 6:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	52 min
Jun 27, 6:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	46 min
Jun 27, 7:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan, Wichita	57 min
Jun 27, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	42 min
Jun 27, 9:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	28 min
Jun 27, 9:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham, Norton	35 min
Jun 27, 10:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	28 min
Jun 27, 10:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	34 min
Jun 27, 10:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	17 min
Jun 27, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	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.