Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 511, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2016, 6:08 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Sep 3, 2016, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
651 WUUS53 KGLD 040008 SVRGLD KSC181-040100- /O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0511.160904T0008Z-160904T0100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 608 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS... * UNTIL 700 PM MDT * AT 607 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANORADO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KANORADO AND RULETON. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 IN KANSAS BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 0 AND 16. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS RESULTING IN AREAS OF NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DIRT. USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL AND BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING VISIBILITY. && LAT...LON 3952 10179 3925 10171 3921 10205 3942 10205 TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 248DEG 28KT 3930 10211 HAIL...0.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ 024
1 follow-up statement
948
WWUS53 KGLD 040058
SVSGLD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
658 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016
KSC181-040107-
/O.EXP.KGLD.SV.W.0511.000000T0000Z-160904T0100Z/
SHERMAN KS-
658 PM MDT SAT SEP 3 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 700 PM MDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS
ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL COLORADO...AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3952 10179 3925 10171 3921 10205 3942 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 0056Z 248DEG 28KT 3930 10211
$$
024The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 6:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 6:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 10 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 21 min |
| Sep 3, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 7:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 8 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 13 min |
| Sep 3, 7:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 23 min |
| Sep 3, 7:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 7:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 13 min |
| Sep 3, 7:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 8:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 8 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 19 min |
| Sep 3, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 25 min |
| Sep 3, 8:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 10 min |
| Sep 3, 8:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 8:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 39 min |
| Sep 3, 8:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 10 min |
| Sep 3, 9:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 21 min |
| Sep 3, 9:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 10:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 12 min |
| Sep 3, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 42 min |
| Sep 3, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 10:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 11:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 22 min |
| Sep 4, 12:46 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | GLD | Norton | 41 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:14 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:23 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 24 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:49 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 67 min |
| Sep 4, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 45 min |
| Sep 4, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 45 min |
| Sep 4, 3:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 17 min |
| Sep 4, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 28 min |
| Sep 4, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 51 min |
| Sep 4, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 47 min |
| Sep 4, 4:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wichita | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 62 min |
| Sep 4, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 23 min |
| Sep 4, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 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.