Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 74, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2015, 3:17 AM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 19, 2015, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2015, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
237
WFUS53 KGLD 190817
TORGLD
KSC065-190845-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0074.150719T0817Z-150719T0845Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
317 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
* UNTIL 345 AM CDT
* AT 316 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NICODEMUS...OR 11 MILES EAST OF HILL
CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOGUE AND NICODEMUS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3934 9971 3946 9978 3954 9961 3953 9960
3935 9960
TIME...MOT...LOC 0816Z 248DEG 25KT 3941 9965
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75
$$2 follow-up statements
873
WWUS53 KGLD 190827
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
327 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
KSC065-190845-
/O.CON.KGLD.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-150719T0845Z/
GRAHAM KS-
327 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 AM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY...
AT 327 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER NICODEMUS...OR 12 MILES EAST OF HILL CITY...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOGUE AND NICODEMUS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3934 9971 3946 9978 3954 9961 3953 9960
3935 9960
TIME...MOT...LOC 0827Z 251DEG 19KT 3941 9961
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$226
WWUS53 KGLD 190840
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
340 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
KSC065-190849-
/O.EXP.KGLD.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-150719T0845Z/
GRAHAM KS-
340 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
345 AM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3934 9971 3946 9978 3954 9961 3953 9960
3935 9960
TIME...MOT...LOC 0837Z 248DEG 25KT 3941 9961
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Jul 18, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 9:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 10:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 17 min |
| Jul 18, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 40 min |
| Jul 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 2:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 39 min |
| Jul 19, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 60 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.