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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 4, 2015Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2015, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2015, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1814 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 4, 6:56 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:56 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 7:20 PM CDT, 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
620 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-060030-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
620 PM MDT THU JUN 4 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...
EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING
ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES AND FLASH FLOODING AS THE MAIN
THREATS.

AREAS OF FOG WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT...GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST
OF THE COLORADO BORDER. VISIBILITIES LESS THAN ONE HALF MILE ARE
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE TRI-STATE AREA ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...PRIMARILY ALONG AND
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. ALL MODES OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE POSSIBLE
INCLUDING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 7:21 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
721 PM CDT THU JUN 4 2015

KSZ002-NEZ080-081-050100-
RAWLINS KS-HITCHCOCK NE-RED WILLOW NE-
721 PM CDT THU JUN 4 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN RAWLINS...
SOUTHEASTERN HITCHCOCK AND SOUTHWESTERN RED WILLOW COUNTIES UNTIL 800
PM CDT...

AT 721 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4
MILES NORTH OF LUDELL...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ATWOOD...MOVING NORTH
AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
KANSAS AND SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4013 10065 4000 10072 4000 10074 3997 10074
      3974 10086 3987 10112 4023 10102
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 199DEG 16KT 3991 10098

BULLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove51 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins30 min
Jun 4, 7:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove35 min
Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins20 min
Jun 4, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove31 min
Jun 4, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove67 min
Jun 4, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove19 min
Jun 4, 8:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham42 min
Jun 4, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Norton60 min
Jun 4, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur28 min
Jun 4, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove65 min
Jun 4, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Sheridan68 min
Jun 4, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove33 min
Jun 4, 9:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGraham, Norton6 hr
Jun 4, 9:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDSheridan49 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Norton60 min
Jun 4, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Sheridan62 min
Jun 4, 10:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGove3 hr
Jun 4, 10:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSheridan38 min
Jun 4, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Norton59 min
Jun 4, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan44 min
Jun 4, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace66 min
Jun 5, 12:47 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryGLDCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace9 hr
Jun 5, 6:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman7 hr
Jun 5, 6:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSheridan17 min
Jun 5, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace49 min
Jun 5, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson63 min
Jun 5, 4:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDKit Carson4 hr
Jun 5, 5:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne47 min
Jun 5, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson40 min
Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson46 min
Jun 5, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson26 min
Jun 5, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson45 min
Jun 5, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma26 min
Jun 5, 6:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne10 min
Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson20 min
Jun 5, 6:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDKit Carson, Yuma30 min
Jun 5, 6:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne12 min
Jun 4, 8:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock42 min
Jun 5, 12:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRed Willow37 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.