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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 339, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2014, 10:08 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 29, 2014, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2014, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Sep 29, 9:58 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 9:58 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 517 PM MDT MON SEP 29 2014 KSZ002>004-014>016-028-029-042-NEZ080-081-302330- RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-LOGAN-GOVE-WICHITA- HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 517 PM MDT MON SEP 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. AT THIS TIME THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ROUGHLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM TRIBUNE TO COLBY TO CULBERTSON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUIRED. COZ090>092-KSZ001-013-027-041-NEZ079-302330- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN-WALLACE-GREELEY- DUNDY- 517 PM MDT MON SEP 29 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT/1000 PM CDT... ...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT/1000 PM CDT... FOR COUNTIES ALONG THE COLORADO BORDER...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL REMAIN INTO THE 25 TO 35 MPH RANGE...WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH FOR THE EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER EASTERN COLORADO...AND THEN ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. AT THIS TIME THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ROUGHLY ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM TRIBUNE TO COLBY TO CULBERTSON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 29, 8:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 58 min |
| Sep 29, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Thomas | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 55 min |
| Sep 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 68 min |
| Sep 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 30 min |
| Sep 29, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 9:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 18 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.