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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2014, 1:07 AM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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
- Jul 26, 2014, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2014, 1:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Decatur County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WWUS83 KGLD 260607 SPSGLD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1207 AM MDT SAT JUL 26 2014 KSZ002-003-014-015-260625- DECATUR-RAWLINS-SHERIDAN-THOMAS- 107 AM CDT SAT JUL 26 2014 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PORTIONS OF THOMAS...SHERIDAN...RAWLINS AND DECATUR COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 102 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF REXFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS TO 50 MPH AND MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. && LAT...LON 3988 10054 3961 10028 3935 10068 3961 10097 TIME...MOT...LOC 0606Z 228DEG 32KT 3958 10066 $$ LUNDQUIST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 11:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 25 min |
| Jul 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 24 min |
| Jul 25, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 12:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 4:57 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | GLD | Graham, Norton | 15 hr |
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.