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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2015, 3:46 AM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 7, 2015, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 4:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
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 Aug 7, 3:36 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:36 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 12:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1145 PM MDT THU AUG 6 2015 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-080545- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1145 PM MDT THU AUG 6 2015 /1245 AM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... PATCHY FOG IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. VISIBILITIES MAY DROP DOWN TO A MILE AT TIMES IN SOME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... GOING INTO FRIDAY MORNING...FOG IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF BY THE MID MORNING HOURS. FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN COLORADO...THEN SHIFT EASTWARD ACROSS THE REST OF THE TRI STATE REGION FOR THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:35 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 4:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 7:36 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 50 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.