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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Goodland, KS

June 22, 20184 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2018, 4:09 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2018, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2018, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 4:08 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 1:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1234 PM MDT Fri Jun 22 2018

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231845-
Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins-
Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-
Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow-
1234 PM MDT Fri Jun 22 2018 /134 PM CDT Fri Jun 22 2018/

This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska...
northwest Kansas and east central Colorado.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

...Severe Thunderstorm Watch 198 is in effect until 8 pm MDT /9 pm
CDT/ this evening for portions of the Tri-State area...

Thunderstorms in northeast Colorado will track southeast through
northwest Kansas this afternoon and early this evening. These storms
will be capable of producing damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph and
a few instances of golf ball size hail. Locally heavy rain and
isolated flash flooding cannot be ruled out.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

...Enhanced Risk for Severe Thunderstorms on Sunday...

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail and damaging
winds will be possible across much of the Tri-State area Sunday
afternoon and evening. Locally heavy rainfall and flash flooding
will also be possible.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required.

Vincent

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:31 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:36 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:39 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:53 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:56 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:03 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	40 min
Jun 22, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	52 min
Jun 22, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	41 min
Jun 22, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas, Wallace	55 min
Jun 22, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	43 min
Jun 22, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	22 min
Jun 22, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Logan, Sheridan	65 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	40 min
Jun 22, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	16 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	16 min
Jun 22, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	34 min
Jun 22, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	39 min
Jun 22, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	46 min
Jun 22, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	21 min
Jun 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2018 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.