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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Goodland, KS

August 4, 2015Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2015, 5:33 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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: Aug 4, 2015, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 5:54 PM CDT
In force: 21 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 22:33 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 4, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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-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: 517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 4, 5:12 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 5:12 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:35 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:41 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:24 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	51 min
Aug 3, 8:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	41 min
Aug 3, 8:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wichita	3 hr
Aug 3, 9:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Greeley	3 hr
Aug 4, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 min
Aug 4, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	51 min
Aug 4, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	46 min
Aug 4, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	46 min
Aug 4, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	46 min
Aug 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	44 min
Aug 4, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	52 min
Aug 4, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	39 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	49 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	34 min
Aug 4, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	26 min
Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	45 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	53 min
Aug 4, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	19 min
Aug 4, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	58 min
Aug 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	54 min
Aug 4, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	49 min
Aug 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	36 min
Aug 4, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	63 min
Aug 4, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	59 min
Aug 4, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	22 min
Aug 4, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	28 min
Aug 4, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	39 min
Aug 4, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	51 min
Aug 4, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton, Sheridan	65 min
Aug 4, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	51 min
Aug 4, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	38 min
Aug 4, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	47 min
Aug 4, 3:43 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow	6 hr
Aug 4, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	45 min
Aug 4, 12:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	43 min
Aug 4, 12:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	3 hr
Aug 4, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	39 min
Aug 4, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	51 min
Aug 4, 1:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	40 min
Aug 4, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	48 min
Aug 4, 2:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	3 hr
Aug 4, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	57 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.