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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 2018Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2018, 10:54 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: Jul 25, 2018, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2018, 11:12 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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
Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 Jul 25, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 2:06 PM CDT, 8 hours 48 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
106 PM MDT Wed Jul 25 2018

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-261915-
Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins-
Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-
Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow-
106 PM MDT Wed Jul 25 2018 /206 PM CDT Wed Jul 25 2018/

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

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

Scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon along a cold
front located roughly along Interstate 70 and move southeast. Some of
these storms will become severe with large to giant sized hail,
damaging winds, flash flooding and perhaps a tornado.

Tonight, a thunderstorm complex will move out of northeast Colorado
and into the remainder of the area through the evening and
overnight hours. Some of these storms may produce damaging wind gusts
and large hail, as well as flash flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms across much of the
area Friday and Friday night with a slight risk of severe weather
from Yuma to Trenton northward. Locally heavy rainfall and the
possibility of flash flooding will also exist.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 6:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 25, 7:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:21 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:23 PM CDT, 31 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
Jul 25, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	41 min
Jul 25, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	47 min
Jul 25, 10:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	39 min
Jul 25, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	52 min
Jul 25, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	20 min
Jul 25, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Scott	25 min
Jul 26, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	41 min
Jul 26, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	46 min
Jul 26, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Jul 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	46 min
Jul 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	33 min
Jul 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	28 min
Jul 26, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	24 min
Jul 26, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	29 min
Jul 26, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	28 min
Jul 26, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	30 min
Jul 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	28 min
Jul 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	33 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	46 min
Jul 26, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	2 hr
Jul 26, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	50 min
Jul 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	47 min
Jul 26, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	35 min
Jul 26, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	43 min
Jul 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	30 min
Jul 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	41 min
Jul 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	13 min
Jul 26, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
Jul 26, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	27 min
Jul 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	40 min
Jul 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	41 min
Jul 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	50 min
Jul 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	33 min
Jul 26, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	41 min
Jul 26, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	29 min
Jul 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	40 min
Jul 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	53 min
Jul 26, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
Jul 26, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Dundy	27 min
Jul 26, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	34 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.