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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Goodland, KS

July 21, 2014Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2014, 2:03 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 21, 2014, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2014, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -42 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 21, 2:00 PM MDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:00 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 12:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1230 PM MDT MON JUL 21 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-221200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1230 PM MDT MON JUL 21 2014 /130 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 8 PM CDT FOR COUNTIES ALONG
AND EAST OF A RED WILLOW TO GOVE COUNTY LINE WHERE HEAT INDICES
WILL REACH UP TO 108 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS A WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVES
INTO THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE
DAMAGING OUTFLOW WINDS AND ASSOCIATED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
FOLLOWED BY LARGE HAIL. WITH STORM MOTIONS AROUND 10 MPH OR LESS
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 ALONG A COLD FRONTAL
BOUNDARY. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY
THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:47 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
147 PM MDT MON JUL 21 2014

KSZ027-212015-
WALLACE-
147 PM MDT MON JUL 21 2014

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

AT 143 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WESKAN...MOVING EAST AT 15 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 3878 10200 3891 10193 3887 10157 3870 10167
      3870 10168
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 287DEG 14KT 3883 10188

THEDE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 1:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	28 min
Jul 21, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	29 min
Jul 21, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	34 min
Jul 21, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	32 min
Jul 21, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	37 min
Jul 21, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	53 min
Jul 21, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	51 min
Jul 21, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	29 min
Jul 21, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	27 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	3 hr
Jul 21, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	60 min
Jul 21, 5:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wichita	3 hr

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.