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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 317, NWS Goodland, KS

August 25, 2014Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2014, 8:32 PM MDT for Sherman County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 25, 2014, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2014, 9:17 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -287 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 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 25, 5:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 5:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
444 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-260630-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
444 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND OVERSPREAD
THE AREA THIS EVENING...TRANSITIONING NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. LARGE HAIL TO
THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING. IN ADDITION SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE TRI STATE
AREA FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. IN ADDITION...THERE WILL BE AN
INCREASED FLASH FLOOD THREAT WITH SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THAT
DEVELOP.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 25, 4:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
443 PM MDT MON AUG 25 2014

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

0426 PM     HAIL             WSW LYDIA               38.28N 101.30W
08/25/2014  E0.75 INCH       WICHITA            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES REPORTED IN LYDIA.

&&

RHUSTED

Local storm report, Aug 25, 5:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 25, 7:56 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:15 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:16 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	46 min
Aug 25, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	44 min
Aug 25, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	36 min
Aug 26, 3:52 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more	24 hr
Aug 26, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	40 min
Aug 25, 8:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	47 min
Aug 25, 11:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	40 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.