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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Goodland, KS

August 22, 20144 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2014, 6:18 PM CDT for 4 counties in 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
Aug 22, 2014, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
80.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 22, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2014-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 916 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 2014-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 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 22, 5:58 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 5:58 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 12:02 PM CDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1102 AM MDT FRI AUG 22 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231200-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1102 AM MDT FRI AUG 22 2014

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS
NORTHEAST COLORADO AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BY 3 PM MDT (4PM CDT).
THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS A MAJORITY OF THE AREA THROUGH
THIS EVENING.

THE ENTIRE AREA WILL SEE A THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WITH LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES ALL BEING A THREAT. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH MANY STORMS. AT THIS TIME
THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM
WILD HORSE TO SHARON SPRINGS TO GOVE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH AFTERNOON
AND EVENING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED. ANY SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS THROUGH
SOCIAL MEDIA OR OVER THE PHONE ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 5:59 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 22, 6:18 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
518 PM MDT FRI AUG 22 2014

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

0517 PM     HAIL             12 N GOODLAND           39.52N 101.71W
08/22/2014  M1.00 INCH       SHERMAN            KS   STORM CHASER

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur, Sheridan40 min
Aug 22, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman63 min
Aug 22, 4:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley15 min
Aug 22, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita54 min
Aug 22, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley46 min
Aug 22, 5:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne26 min
Aug 22, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman57 min
Aug 22, 5:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne6 hr
Aug 22, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita54 min
Aug 22, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Wichita65 min
Aug 22, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne33 min
Aug 22, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins57 min
Aug 22, 6:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton40 min
Aug 22, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas51 min
Aug 22, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman53 min
Aug 22, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas62 min
Aug 22, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins64 min
Aug 22, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Graham, Sheridan61 min
Aug 22, 2:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne14 min
Aug 22, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Aug 22, 3:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson13 min
Aug 22, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson36 min
Aug 22, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson26 min
Aug 22, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
Aug 22, 3:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne3 hr
Aug 22, 3:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne3 hr
Aug 22, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson59 min
Aug 22, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson34 min
Aug 22, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson20 min
Aug 22, 5:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDKit Carson7 hr
Aug 22, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson57 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.