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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Goodland, KS

April 28, 2019Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2019, 7:49 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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: Apr 28, 2019, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2019, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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
Apr 28, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 432 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 Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 3:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
246 PM MDT Sun Apr 28 2019

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-291200-
Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins-
Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-
Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow-
246 PM MDT Sun Apr 28 2019 /346 PM CDT Sun Apr 28 2019/

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

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

Scattered afternoon thunderstorms over northeast Colorado and
southwest Nebraska will become more numerous as storms move into
northwest Kansas during the evening hours. Isolated severe storms
with large hail, damaging winds, and localized heavy rain are
possible across the entire forecast area this afternoon and evening
with scattered severe storms possible as they move into the region
east of a line from from Russell Springs to Norton, Kansas.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

A wintry mix of precipitation is expected Monday night into Tuesday
morning. There will be the possibility of light ice accumulation
across eastern Colorado.

As precipitation moves out of the region and skies begin to clear
out Wednesday night into Thursday morning, there will be a
possibility of frost forming northwest of a line from Kit Carson,
Colorado to McCook, Nebraska.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required through this evening.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
411 PM MDT SUN APR 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0403 PM     TORNADO          6 SW EDSON              39.28N 101.62W
04/28/2019                   SHERMAN            KS   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORT OF A SECOND TORNADO. DO NOT
            KNOW IF STILL ON THE GROUND SINCE PERSON WAS
            DRIVING TOWARD TOWN FOR SHELTER.

&&

MB

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
422 PM MDT SUN APR 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0414 PM     TSTM WND GST     2 NW WRAY               40.10N 102.25W
04/28/2019  E58 MPH          YUMA               CO   MESONET

            58 MPH GUST FROM THE WRAY AWOS.

&&

MB

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
439 PM MDT SUN APR 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0338 PM     HAIL             13 S WHEELER            39.57N 101.70W
04/28/2019  E2.00 INCH       CHEYENNE           KS   PUBLIC

            TIME APPROXIMATED FROM RADAR. UP TO 2 INCH
            HAIL REPORTED NEAR HWY 27 AT THE
            SHERMAN/CHEYENNE COUNTY LINE.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
502 PM MDT SUN APR 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0423 PM     HAIL             11 W WINONA             39.06N 101.46W
04/28/2019  E1.00 INCH       LOGAN              KS   PUBLIC

            UP TO 1 INCH HAIL OBSERVED WEST OF WINONA.
            LOCATION APPROXIMATED FROM RADAR. LASTED 5
            MINUTES.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
508 PM MDT SUN APR 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0503 PM     HAIL             2 N RUSSELL SPRINGS     38.94N 101.18W
04/28/2019  E1.00 INCH       LOGAN              KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            UP TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 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
Apr 28, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman and 3 more	43 min
Apr 28, 10:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.