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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 2015Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2015, 5:21 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 11 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
Jul 25, 2015, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2015, 5:32 PM MDT
In force
11 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 12:00Z on 2015-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 585 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 12:00Z on 2015-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jul 25, 5:00 PM MDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 5:00 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 2:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
255 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-262100-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
255 PM MDT SAT JUL 25 2015

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

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

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND
AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY FROM SUNDAY THROUGH NEXT
FRIDAY WITH SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
EVENING. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

HEAT INDEX VALUES SHOULD EXCEED 105 DEGREES EAST OF A NORTON TO
GOVE KANSAS LINE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX VALUES APPROACHING
100 DEGREES ARE POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne18 min
Jul 24, 6:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne42 min
Jul 24, 6:41 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins2 hr
Jul 24, 6:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne3 hr
Jul 24, 7:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins3 hr
Jul 24, 7:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDThomas29 min
Jul 24, 7:35 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDSherman, Thomas3 hr
Jul 24, 7:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDThomas, Wallace57 min
Jul 24, 8:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan, Wallace61 min
Jul 24, 9:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove22 min
Jul 24, 9:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace40 min
Jul 24, 9:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace26 min
Jul 24, 9:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan, Wallace46 min
Jul 24, 10:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan59 min
Jul 24, 10:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman42 min
Jul 25, 2:18 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur42 min
Jul 25, 3:27 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham48 min
Jul 25, 4:23 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham52 min
Jul 25, 2:06 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryGLDGove, Graham, Norton28 hr
Jul 25, 5:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley, Wichita41 min
Jul 24, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma41 min
Jul 24, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma15 min
Jul 24, 7:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne44 min
Jul 24, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy51 min
Jul 25, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock37 min
Jul 25, 5:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock31 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.