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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2016, 9:02 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 68 | 2 N Traer, KS |
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 270202
TORGLD
KSC039-153-NEC087-145-270245-
/O.NEW.KGLD.TO.W.0044.160527T0202Z-160527T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
902 PM CDT THU MAY 26 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...
SOUTHEASTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 901 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HERNDON...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
OBERLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER 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...
DANBURY AROUND 930 PM CDT.
INDIANOLA AROUND 940 PM CDT.
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE CEDAR
BLUFFS AND TRAER.
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 4033 10040 4008 10020 3986 10076 4003 10088
TIME...MOT...LOC 0201Z 236DEG 33KT 3999 10074
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
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, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 34 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, 9:05 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.