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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

August 14, 2015Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2015, 1:13 AM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 14, 2015, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2015, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 687 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Aug 14, 12:33 AM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 12:33 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 3:43 PM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
243 PM MDT THU AUG 13 2015

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-142045-
YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON-
SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
243 PM MDT THU AUG 13 2015 /343 PM CDT THU AUG 13 2015/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST CENTRAL
COLORADO. THESE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA
DURING THE EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. IN THIS
AREA...THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG THE
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE HEAVY
RAINFALL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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

AN ENHANCED CHANCE FOR STORMS WILL ARRIVE WITH A COLD FRONT
SUNDAY EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. IN
ADDITION...HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SLOW MOVING STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 13, 11:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1054 PM MDT THU AUG 13 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1053 PM     TSTM WND GST     OBERLIN                 39.82N 100.53W
08/13/2015  M54 MPH          DECATUR            KS   BROADCAST MEDIA

&&

JN

Local storm report, Aug 13, 11:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1056 PM MDT THU AUG 13 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1055 PM     TSTM WND GST     OBERLIN                 39.82N 100.53W
08/13/2015  M64 MPH          DECATUR            KS   AWOS

&&

JN

Local storm report, Aug 14, 12:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1103 PM MDT THU AUG 13 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 PM     FLASH FLOOD      OBERLIN                 39.82N 100.53W
08/13/2015                   DECATUR            KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

            6-8 INCHES OF WATER MOVING ACROSS AN INTERSECTION IN
            TOWN.

&&

KOCHASIC

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 12:30 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 14, 12:35 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:13 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	23 min
Aug 13, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	34 min
Aug 13, 11:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	26 min
Aug 13, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	51 min
Aug 13, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	46 min
Aug 14, 12:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur	3 hr
Aug 14, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Sheridan	59 min
Aug 14, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	45 min
Aug 14, 1:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	25 min
Aug 13, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	39 min
Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	23 min
Aug 13, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	56 min
Aug 13, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	63 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.