Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2015, 7:19 PM CDT for Logan County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2015, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2015, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Logan County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:20 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 11 N Leoti, KS | BLOWING DUST WITH NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY |
| Aug 7, 7:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 11 Nnw Leoti, KS | A MIX OF PENNY AND QUARTER HAIL...50 MPH ESTIMATED WIND GUST AND HEAVY RAIN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 7, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 4039 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 20.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
960
WUUS53 KGLD 080019
SVRGLD
KSC109-203-080115-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0310.150808T0019Z-150808T0115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
719 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHERN WICHITA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 719 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LEOTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 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...
LEOTI AND SELKIRK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS RESULTING IN AREAS OF
NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DIRT. USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST
TRAVEL AND BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITY.
&&
LAT...LON 3842 10156 3868 10157 3870 10152 3870 10149
3871 10149 3884 10114 3854 10113
TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 238DEG 13KT 3854 10148
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
550
WWUS53 KGLD 080038
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
738 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015
KSC109-203-080115-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-150808T0115Z/
LOGAN KS-WICHITA KS-
738 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN AND NORTHERN WICHITA COUNTIES...
AT 738 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF
LEOTI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHWESTERN LOGAN AND NORTHERN WICHITA COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
THIS STORM IS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AROUND AN INCH. SEEK SHELTER NOW
INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS RESULTING IN AREAS OF
NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DIRT. USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST
TRAVEL AND BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITY.
&&
LAT...LON 3851 10156 3868 10157 3870 10152 3870 10149
3871 10149 3884 10114 3863 10114
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 238DEG 13KT 3858 10141
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 7:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 1 more | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 1:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 6:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 26 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.