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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 6:59 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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 2, 2016, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 Aug 2, 6:45 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:45 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1251 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2016 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-031900- YUMA COUNTY-KIT CARSON COUNTY-CHEYENNE COUNTY-CHEYENNE-RAWLINS- DECATUR-NORTON-SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE- GREELEY-WICHITA-DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1251 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2016 /151 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL COLORADO... EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...ALTHOUGH STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY AND TONIGHT. JRM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 434 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 KSZ042-022200- WICHITA KS- 434 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 434 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MODOC...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MARIENTHAL. LAT...LON 3850 10129 3849 10113 3830 10112 3829 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 086DEG 9KT 3840 10115 HUSTED
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
503 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
KSZ042-022230-
WICHITA KS-
503 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN WICHITA COUNTY UNTIL
530 PM CDT...
AT 503 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MODOC...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LYDIA.
LAT...LON 3843 10138 3848 10113 3829 10113 3826 10117
3827 10132
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 068DEG 6KT 3838 10119
HUSTEDSpecial weather statement, Aug 2, 6:02 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 602 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 KSZ042-022330- WICHITA KS- 602 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN WICHITA COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT... AT 602 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEOTI. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LYDIA. LAT...LON 3844 10157 3847 10141 3827 10128 3826 10157 TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 065DEG 4KT 3837 10145 HUSTED
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:09 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
609 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
KSZ029-022330-
GOVE KS-
609 PM CDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY UNTIL
630 PM CDT...
AT 609 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14
MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOVE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THE MONUMENT ROCKS.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3873 10082 3887 10082 3898 10075 3886 10055
3870 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2309Z 115DEG 5KT 3881 10069
HUSTEDSpecial weather statement, Aug 2, 6:59 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 21 min |
| Aug 1, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 23 min |
| Aug 1, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 16 min |
| Aug 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 26 min |
| Aug 2, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 21 min |
| Aug 2, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 21 min |
| Aug 1, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 9:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 119 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.