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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

May 23, 2014Norton County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2014, 4:36 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 84 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2014, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Norton County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 23, 4:19 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 4:19 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 11:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1033 AM MDT FRI MAY 23 2014

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-241515-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1033 AM MDT FRI MAY 23 2014 /1133 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2014/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AGAIN ACROSS PARTS OF
THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT GIVEN THE RECENT RAINFALL
AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL RAIN...THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

WHILE NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...ISOLATED TO
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH
PLAINS REGION EACH DAY THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. ANY
PRECIPITATION REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 4:36 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley27 min
May 22, 9:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita29 min
May 22, 10:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace20 min
May 23, 12:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDNorton3 hr
May 23, 5:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton68 min
May 22, 7:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson28 min
May 22, 8:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson27 min
May 22, 8:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma17 min
May 22, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma38 min
May 22, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma28 min
May 22, 9:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDPhillips30 min
May 22, 10:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson36 min
May 22, 10:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson93 min
May 23, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy23 min
May 23, 6:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy41 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.