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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Goodland, KS

August 7, 2019Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2019, 7:35 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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: Aug 7, 2019, 7:35 PM MDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2019, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 892 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Aug 7, 2:35 PM MDT, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:35 PM MDT, 5 hours 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
Aug 7, 9:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	44 min
Aug 7, 10:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	38 min
Aug 7, 10:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	41 min
Aug 7, 11:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	27 min
Aug 7, 11:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	45 min
Aug 7, 11:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	2 hr
Aug 7, 11:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	41 min
Aug 8, 12:21 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	54 min
Aug 8, 12:25 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	94 min
Aug 8, 12:27 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Norton, Rawlins	63 min
Aug 8, 12:38 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton, Rawlins	109 min
Aug 8, 12:59 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	88 min
Aug 8, 1:20 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Norton	55 min
Aug 8, 1:39 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	84 min
Aug 8, 2:35 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	40 min
Aug 7, 8:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	52 min
Aug 7, 8:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	40 min
Aug 7, 9:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	43 min
Aug 7, 10:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	41 min
Aug 7, 10:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	50 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.