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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2016, 12:31 AM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska; Decatur County, Rawlins 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
- Apr 24, 2016, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2016, 12:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 866 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted.
031
WUUS53 KGLD 240531
SVRGLD
KSC039-153-NEC145-240615-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0021.160424T0531Z-160424T0615Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1231 AM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHERN RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT
* AT 1231 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF
HERNDON...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF OBERLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCCOOK...INDIANOLA...HERNDON...DANBURY...TRAER AND CEDAR BLUFFS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3974 10089 4001 10074 4026 10075 4026 10032
3991 10033
TIME...MOT...LOC 0531Z 236DEG 31KT 3992 10071
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
208
WWUS53 KGLD 240559
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1259 AM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
KSC039-153-NEC145-240609-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160424T0615Z/
DECATUR KS-RAWLINS KS-RED WILLOW NE-
1259 AM CDT SUN APR 24 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN DECATUR...
NORTHEASTERN RAWLINS AND SOUTHERN RED WILLOW COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3974 10089 4001 10074 4026 10075 4026 10032
3991 10033
TIME...MOT...LOC 0554Z 236DEG 31KT 4006 10045
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 17 min |
| Apr 24, 1:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 31 min |
| Apr 23, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 10:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 10:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 51 min |
| Apr 23, 11:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 14 min |
| Apr 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 11:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Thomas | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 2:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 3:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 15 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.