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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 23, 2016, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2016, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 23, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 10:38 AM MDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1038 AM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-241645- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1038 AM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016 /1138 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE NEAR 105 FOR LOCATIONS ROUGHLY ALONG AND EAST OF A GOVE TO HOXIE TO TRENTON LINE. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP FROM THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 455 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016 KSZ042-232230- WICHITA KS- 455 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 455 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEOTI...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY. LAT...LON 3862 10133 3866 10113 3852 10113 3850 10130 TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 270DEG 17KT 3856 10125 JN
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:56 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 456 PM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016 KSZ041-232330- GREELEY KS- 456 PM MDT SAT JUL 23 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN GREELEY COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM MDT... AT 456 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TOWNER...OR 16 MILES WEST OF TRIBUNE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TRIBUNE AND HORACE. LAT...LON 3839 10204 3856 10205 3854 10174 3831 10176 TIME...MOT...LOC 2256Z 271DEG 12KT 3848 10206 JN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 9 min |
| Jul 22, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 20 min |
| Jul 22, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 9:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 14 min |
| Jul 22, 10:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 14 min |
| Jul 22, 10:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 10:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 10:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 3:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| Jul 23, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 14 min |
| Jul 22, 8:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 12 min |
| Jul 22, 8:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 13 min |
| Jul 22, 8:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Yuma | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 9:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Yuma | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 10:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 16 min |
| Jul 22, 11:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 11:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 67 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.