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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

April 17, 2015Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2015, 6:03 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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: Apr 17, 2015, 6:03 PM MDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2015, 6:18 PM MDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 17, 4:37 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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.

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

580 
WUUS53 KGLD 180003
SVRGLD
KSC199-180045-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0021.150418T0003Z-150418T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
603 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 603 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTH OF
  WALLACE...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHARON SPRINGS...MOVING NORTH AT
  30 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHARON SPRINGS AND WALLACE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH A TORNADO IS NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...IF ONE IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3896 10189 3903 10153 3877 10148 3872 10149
      3870 10170
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 159DEG 24KT 3878 10162 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

JRM

1 follow-up statement

991 
WWUS53 KGLD 180018
SVSGLD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
618 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2015

KSC199-180027-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150418T0045Z/
WALLACE KS-
618 PM MDT FRI APR 17 2015

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WALLACE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  HOWEVER SMALL HAIL AND
GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3896 10189 3903 10153 3877 10148 3872 10149
      3870 10170
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 159DEG 24KT 3887 10167 

$$

DR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 6:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Sherman	28 min
Apr 17, 6:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	25 min
Apr 17, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	23 min
Apr 17, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	35 min
Apr 17, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	37 min
Apr 17, 6:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	30 min
Apr 17, 6:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	52 min
Apr 17, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	24 min
Apr 17, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	36 min
Apr 17, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	14 min
Apr 17, 7:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	27 min
Apr 17, 7:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	36 min
Apr 17, 7:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	26 min
Apr 17, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	16 min
Apr 17, 7:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	26 min
Apr 17, 8:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	38 min
Apr 17, 8:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	35 min
Apr 17, 9:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	32 min
Apr 17, 10:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	36 min
Apr 18, 4:51 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	4 hr
Apr 18, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	48 min
Apr 18, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	31 min
Apr 18, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
Apr 18, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	47 min
Apr 18, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	15 min
Apr 18, 4:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	18 min
Apr 18, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	35 min
Apr 18, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	18 min
Apr 18, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	29 min
Apr 18, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	42 min
Apr 18, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	29 min
Apr 18, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	17 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.