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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 363, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2015, 2:57 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 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 21, 2015, 2:57 PM MDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2015, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 21, 2:41 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:41 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 2:47 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 247 PM MDT FRI AUG 21 2015 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-222100- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 247 PM MDT FRI AUG 21 2015 /347 PM CDT FRI AUG 21 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTERNOON ALONG BURLINGTON TO ST. FRANCIS AND BENKELMAN LINE CORRIDOR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FRONT SATURDAY AFTERNOON... MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HILL CITY KANSAS TO OAKLEY TO KIT CARSON COLORADO. A FEW STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 21, 2:19 PM MDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Aug 21, 2:46 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
246 PM MDT FRI AUG 21 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0243 PM HAIL 2 N ST. FRANCIS 39.80N 101.80W
08/21/2015 E1.50 INCH CHEYENNE KS TRAINED SPOTTER
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BWARRENLocal storm report, Aug 21, 2:50 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
250 PM MDT FRI AUG 21 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0248 PM HAIL ST. FRANCIS 39.77N 101.80W
08/21/2015 E0.25 INCH CHEYENNE KS TRAINED SPOTTER
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BWARRENLocal storm report, Aug 21, 2:55 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
255 PM MDT FRI AUG 21 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0251 PM HAIL 4 E ST. FRANCIS 39.77N 101.72W
08/21/2015 E1.00 INCH CHEYENNE KS PUBLIC
PICTURE SENT OVER TWITTER LOCATION 4E OF ST FRANCIS.
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BWARRENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 12:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 54 min |
| Aug 21, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 1:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| Aug 21, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 3:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 48 min |
| Aug 21, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 5:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 58 min |
| Aug 21, 12:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 12:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.