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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2016, 7:41 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
Counties Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:21 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 S Culbertson, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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WFUS53 KGLD 270041
TORGLD
KSC153-NEC087-145-270115-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0041.160527T0041Z-160527T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
741 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
WEST CENTRAL RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 740 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTH OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.
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.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
TRENTON AROUND 755 PM CDT.
CULBERTSON AROUND 810 PM CDT.
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 3990 10106 4008 10119 4030 10077 4012 10064
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 238DEG 32KT 4004 10106
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
KTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 37 min |
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 32 min |
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| May 26, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 52 min |
| May 26, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 51 min |
| May 26, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton | 51 min |
| May 26, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 34 min |
| May 26, 8:45 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 73 min |
| May 26, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 27 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 52 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 43 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 3 hr |
| May 26, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton | 48 min |
| May 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 12 hr |
| May 27, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| May 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 43 min |
| May 27, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 24 min |
| May 27, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 34 min |
| May 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| May 27, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 33 min |
| May 27, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 15 min |
| May 27, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 34 min |
| May 27, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 15 min |
| May 27, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 27 min |
| May 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 28 min |
| May 27, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 15 min |
| May 27, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 35 min |
| May 27, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| May 27, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 20 min |
| May 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 33 min |
| May 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 15 min |
| May 27, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 23 min |
| May 27, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 28 min |
| May 27, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 10 min |
| May 26, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 34 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 48 min |
| May 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 34 min |
| May 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 49 min |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 3 hr |
| May 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 49 min |
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 27 min |
| May 26, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 30 min |
| May 26, 11:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Dundy | 12 hr |
| May 27, 12:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 36 min |
| May 27, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 26 min |
| May 27, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 14 min |
| May 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 30 min |
| May 27, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 16 min |
| May 27, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 18 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.