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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2015, 3:02 PM CDT for Decatur County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 16, 2015, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Decatur County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Apr 16, 2:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1020 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-171200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1020 AM MDT THU APR 16 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. ALL MODES OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE POSSIBLE...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST OF THE COLORADO BORDER FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
252 PM CDT THU APR 16 2015
KSZ003-015-162015-
DECATUR KS-SHERIDAN KS-
252 PM CDT THU APR 16 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN SHERIDAN AND
SOUTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CDT...
AT 252 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
MENLO...OR 9 MILES WEST OF HOXIE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SELDEN...LEOVILLE AND SEGUIN.
LAT...LON 3926 10049 3927 10072 3957 10072 3957 10074
3961 10074 3960 10041
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 182DEG 21KT 3934 10061
007The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 27 min |
| Apr 15, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 12:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 2:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 23 min |
| Apr 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 28 min |
| Apr 16, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 26 min |
| Apr 16, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove, Graham | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 26 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.