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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Goodland, KS

April 24, 2015Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2015, 1:36 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Colorado. 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
Apr 24, 2015, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2015, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
39 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 19:36 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2015-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2015-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2290 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 Apr 24, 11:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 11:58 AM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 24, 10:53 AM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1053 AM MDT FRI APR 24 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-251700-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
1053 AM MDT FRI APR 24 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 ARE EXPECTED DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE EAST OF THE COLORADO BORDER. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS AND FAR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY
83. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED FROM LATE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 10:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace15 min
Apr 24, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace49 min
Apr 24, 2:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace39 min
Apr 24, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita27 min
Apr 24, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace47 min
Apr 24, 3:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRawlins22 min
Apr 24, 3:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita19 min
Apr 24, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace41 min
Apr 24, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita35 min
Apr 24, 4:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne22 min
Apr 24, 4:14 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDWichita31 min
Apr 24, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley27 min
Apr 24, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace38 min
Apr 24, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley33 min
Apr 24, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita23 min
Apr 24, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove62 min
Apr 24, 5:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita30 min
Apr 24, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove50 min
Apr 24, 5:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham31 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma14 min
Apr 23, 6:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma23 min
Apr 23, 8:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson16 min
Apr 23, 9:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne13 min
Apr 23, 9:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne17 min
Apr 24, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne27 min
Apr 24, 2:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Apr 24, 3:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne15 min
Apr 24, 3:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne21 min
Apr 24, 3:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson19 min
Apr 24, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma35 min
Apr 23, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy22 min
Apr 23, 7:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy16 min
Apr 23, 7:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy19 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.