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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 26, 2018Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 26, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2018, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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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 Jul 26, 2:51 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:51 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 11:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:14 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:34 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:44 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:12 PM CDT, 0 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, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	18 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, 3:29 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.