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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Goodland, KS

August 18, 2014Gove County, Logan County, Thomas County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 200 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2014-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 7:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham38 min
Aug 18, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan41 min
Aug 18, 6:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014Every 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.