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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Goodland, KS

June 17, 2015Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2015, 7:19 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 17, 2015, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2015, 7:43 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 79 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 7:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove48 min
Jun 18, 6:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne36 min
Jun 18, 6:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur, Rawlins31 min
Jun 18, 7:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur, Norton43 min
Jun 18, 8:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham, Sheridan51 min
Jun 18, 8:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham, Sheridan39 min
Jun 18, 9:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove27 min
Jun 18, 5:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy, Hitchcock23 min
Jun 18, 6:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock, Red Willow25 min
Jun 18, 6:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock, Red Willow13 min
Jun 18, 6:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock35 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.