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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Goodland, KS

May 29, 2015Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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: May 29, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2015, 3:21 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 May 29, 1:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 11:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1024 AM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301630-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1024 AM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TWO POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. LARGE HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:48 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
148 PM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

COZ090-292015-
YUMA COUNTY CO-
148 PM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY UNTIL
215 PM MDT...

AT 147 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTHEAST OF YUMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ECKLEY AND HEARTSTRONG.

LAT...LON 4002 10276 4017 10262 4003 10233 3985 10250
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 306DEG 21KT 4006 10261

MK

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
150 PM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

KSZ001-013-292015-
CHEYENNE KS-SHERMAN KS-
150 PM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL SHERMAN AND
SOUTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM MDT/315 PM CDT/...

AT 150 PM MDT /250 PM CDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF ST. FRANCIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ST. FRANCIS.

LAT...LON 3964 10199 3979 10186 3962 10150 3947 10172
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 308DEG 23KT 3967 10185

MK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	50 min
May 29, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
May 29, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 29, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	46 min
May 29, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	39 min
May 29, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	52 min
May 29, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan, Thomas	46 min
May 29, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas, Wallace	26 min
May 29, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	39 min
May 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	51 min
May 29, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	48 min
May 29, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wichita	44 min
May 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	40 min
May 29, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	53 min
May 29, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	33 min
May 29, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	27 min
May 29, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	36 min
May 28, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	46 min
May 29, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	50 min
May 29, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	34 min

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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.