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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 18, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2014, 6:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 18, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 12:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1117 AM MDT MON AUG 18 2014 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-190615- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1117 AM MDT MON AUG 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM YUMA COLORADO TO GOODLAND AND HILL CITY KANSAS...WITH THE BEST STORM COVERAGE OVER THE CHEYENNE AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES IN COLORADO. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. ANOTHER BATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING THROUGH MUCH OF THE OVERNIGHT AS A WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH. A FEW OF THESE MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR IN SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. THE BEST STORM COVERAGE WILL BE SOUTH OF A VERNON COLORADO TO GOODLAND AND OAKLEY KANSAS LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AS WELL AS OVER THE PHONE. JTL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 5:34 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 534 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 KSZ014-028-029-182315- LOGAN KS-GOVE KS-THOMAS KS- 534 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN GOVE...SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS AND EASTERN LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 534 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAKLEY...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OAKLEY AND MONUMENT. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 75 AND 81. LAT...LON 3909 10105 3917 10076 3886 10060 3878 10096 TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 343DEG 13KT 3907 10090
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 43 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.