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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Goodland, KS

May 14, 2019Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2019, 4:22 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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: May 14, 2019, 4:22 PM MDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2019, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 2846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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 May 14, 2:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 3:51 PM MDT, 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
May 13, 8:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 13, 10:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	33 min
May 13, 10:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	45 min
May 14, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	35 min
May 14, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	29 min
May 14, 5:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	32 min
May 14, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	31 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.