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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 378, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2015, 5:52 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 10, 2015, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.5 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 Sep 10, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 3:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 217 PM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY) ISSUED AT 1240 PM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT CONTINUES ACROSS THE REGION. ANOTHER EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE WILL RESULT IN SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT...WHILE AT THE SURFACE A COLD FRONT DROPPING OUT OF NEBRASKA AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION ARE POTENTIAL FOCUSING MECHANISMS. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS TOWERING CU DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT JUST NORTH OF MCCOOK AS WELL AS AREAS TO THE SOUTH WHERE ONE OF THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ARE LOCATED. SHEAR AND INSTABILITY PARAMETERS WILL BE BEST IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE AREA...FROM MCCOOK TO HILL CITY...THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THAT AREA IS NEAR THE SPC ENHANCED RISK AREA WHERE SUPERCELLS MAY DEVELOP THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND PERHAPS A TORNADO OR TWO. ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY CONGEAL INTO AN MCS BY MID EVENING AND QUICKLY MOVE INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT. NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY BUT WITH COOLER AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS AND LACK OF AN UPPER SHORTWAVE FOR FORCING APPEARS IT WILL BE DRY. HIGHS ON FRIDAY WILL BE IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S .LONG TERM...(FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY) ISSUED AT 216 PM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 FRIDAY NIGHT-MONDAY...H5 RIDGE TRANSITIONS FROM WESTERN US TO CENTRAL ROCKIES AND PLAINS RESULTING IN WARMING TREND AND DRY CONDITIONS. LATE FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING THERE COULD BE A PERIOD OF FOG DEVELOPING AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SLOWLY RETREATS TO THE NORTHEAST AND BL MOISTURE POOLS ALONG SURFACE TROUGH AXIS IN EASTERN COLORADO. HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD APPROACH SEASONAL VALUES IN THE 80S ON SATURDAY...WITH ABOVE NORMAL/UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES RETURNING SUNDAY AND MONDAY. EARLIER GUIDANCE SUPPORTED HIGHS BY MONDAY APPROACHING THE MID 90S...THOUGH RECENT TRENDS HAVE BACKED OFF ON DEGREE OF WAA EAST OF ROCKIES. TUESDAY-THURSDAY...UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPS ACROSS PACIFIC NW INTO SW US...WITH SHIFT TO SW FLOW ACROSS CENTRAL ROCKIES AND PLAINS. PEAK HEIGHT FALLS DO NOT ARRIVE UNTIL WEDNESDAY/WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHICH SHOULD KEEP FAVORABLE STORM TRACK WEST OF OUR CWA. THIS ALSO RESULTS IN AT LEAST ONE MORE DAY (TUESDAY) OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...BEFORE SEASONAL VALUES IN THE 80S RETURN WED/THU. EVEN AS STORM TRACK SHIFTS EAST TO BE CLOSER TO OUR CWA...GUIDANCE IS STILL SHOWING EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES MAINLY ROTATING AROUND OUR CWA WITH MINIMAL FORCING. THERE CAN STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE/INSTABILITY ALONG PREFRONTAL TROUGH TO INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHERE THERE IS BETTER MODEL CONSENSUS. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z FRIDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 1113 AM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 SHORTWAVE EMBEDDED IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH AT THE SURFACE WILL RESULT IN WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER WITH BEST COVERAGE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTH AND EAST OF KGLD AND KMCK NOT ENOUGH CONFIDENCE THAT A STORM WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT EITHER TERMINAL TO MENTION IN THE TAFS. THEREFORE WILL HAVE VFR THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH SURFACE WINDS SHIFTING TO NORTHEAST BY THE AFTERNOON AND GUSTY AT TIMES BEFORE DIMINISHING AFTER SUNSET. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. CO...NONE. NE...NONE. && SHORT TERM...024 LONG TERM...DR AVIATION...024
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 11:35 AM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1035 AM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-111645- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1035 AM MDT THU SEP 10 2015 /1135 AM CDT THU SEP 10 2015/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTON AND GRAHAM COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO TRIBUNE KANSAS LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE ENHANCED RISK AREA AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT IN EITHER AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 40 min |
| Sep 9, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 52 min |
| Sep 10, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 22 min |
| Sep 10, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 18 min |
| Sep 10, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 37 min |
| Sep 10, 5:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 10 min |
| Sep 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 19 min |
| Sep 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 25 min |
| Sep 10, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 15 min |
| Sep 10, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 43 min |
| Sep 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 35 min |
| Sep 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 11 min |
| Sep 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 20 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.