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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2015, 11:11 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 3, 2015, 11:11 PM CDT (04:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2015, 11:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
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 Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 3, 10:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 3:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 8:31 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 89 min |
| Jun 4, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Furnas | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 26 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.