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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2017, 1:56 PM CDT for Wichita 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
- Jun 20, 2017, 1:56 PM CDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2017, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 1103 AM MDT Tue Jun 20 2017 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-211645- Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins- Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove- Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow- 1103 AM MDT Tue Jun 20 2017 /1203 PM CDT Tue Jun 20 2017/ This hazardous weather outlook is for east central Colorado... extreme southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms east of a line from Tribune, Kansas to McCook, Nebraska as scattered thunderstorms develop and move eastward this afternoon and evening. The primary threats during the afternoon will be damaging winds with a transition to damaging winds and large hail with localized heavy rain during the late afternoon and evening east of a line from Leoti, Kansas to Norton, Kansas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... There is a possibility of severe thunderstorms east of a line from Tribune, Kansas to McCook, Nebraska Wednesday afternoon and evening. Damaging winds and large hail will be the main threats. Locally heavy rainfall may also produce isolated flash flooding. Another round of severe thunderstorms is possible again Thursday afternoon through Thursday night across the central high plains region. Damaging winds and large hail are the main threats. Locally heavy rainfall and an increased threat for flash flooding are also possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:56 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
156 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2017
KSZ028-042-201930-
Wichita KS-Logan KS-
156 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WICHITA AND
SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT...
At 153 PM CDT, thunderstorms were developing across eastern Wichita
county and extreme south central Logan county. These storms are
expected to continue and possibly intensify through 3 PM CDT. Be
prepared for rapidly intensifying storms in this area.
Locations impacted include...
Marienthal.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
west central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3860 10139 3877 10124 3876 10088 3870 10093
3870 10113 3844 10113 3837 10118
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 288DEG 35KT 3866 10118
JRMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 22 min |
| Jun 20, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Jun 20, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 18 min |
| Jun 20, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 14 min |
| Jun 20, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 20 min |
| Jun 20, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 10 min |
| Jun 20, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 8 min |
| Jun 20, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan, Thomas | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 22 min |
| Jun 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 19 min |
| Jun 20, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 10 min |
| Jun 20, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 19 min |
| Jun 20, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 17 min |
| Jun 20, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 24 min |
| Jun 20, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan, Thomas | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 5:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 16 min |
| Jun 20, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 11 min |
| Jun 20, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 23 min |
| Jun 20, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 24 min |
Nearby
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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.