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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Goodland, KS

July 7, 2014Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2014, 8:40 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 7, 2014, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2014, 9:06 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 7, 6:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 11:43 AM CDT, 8 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1043 AM MDT MON JUL 7 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-081215-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1043 AM MDT MON JUL 7 2014 /1143 AM CDT MON JUL 7 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING
IN THE VICINITY OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE
TRI STATE AREA. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM BENKELMAN NEBRASKA TO RUSSELL
SPRINGS KANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN
THREAT.  AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 5:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
410 PM MDT MON JUL 07 2014

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

0359 PM     TSTM WND GST     ANGELUS                 39.19N 100.69W
07/07/2014  M51.00 MPH       SHERIDAN           KS   MESONET

&&

RHUSTED

Local storm report, Jul 7, 5:19 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
419 PM MDT MON JUL 07 2014

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

0419 PM     TSTM WND GST     OAKLEY                  39.13N 100.85W
07/07/2014  M64 MPH          LOGAN              KS   AWOS

&&

BRB

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 5:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
515 PM MDT MON JUL 7 2014

KSZ015-016-029-072345-
GOVE-GRAHAM-SHERIDAN-
615 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2014

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

AT 613 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PENOKEE TO 6 MILES
EAST OF SCOTT STATE LAKE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS. THESE WINDS MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALLY REDUCED
VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9961 3912 10014 3869 10016 3870 10082
      3886 10082 3953 10014 3953 9960
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 297DEG 26KT 3936 10001 3865 10079

ROBINSON

Local storm report, Jul 7, 6:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
544 PM MDT MON JUL 07 2014

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

0420 PM     TSTM WND DMG     OAKLEY                  39.13N 100.85W
07/07/2014                   LOGAN              KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL 6 TO 8 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN. SOME TREES ALSO
            DOWN. A COUPLE OF CANOPIES ON BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN WERE
            BLOWN OFF. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

&&

BRB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	38 min
Jul 7, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	55 min
Jul 7, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	20 min
Jul 7, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	30 min
Jul 7, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
Jul 7, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	47 min
Jul 7, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.