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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Goodland, KS

May 25, 2019Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2019, 8:14 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 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 25, 2019, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2019, 8:36 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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
May 25, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 3:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 7:26 PM CDT, 48 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 25, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	19 min
May 26, 6:33 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more	4 hr
May 26, 11:05 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 4 more	115 min
May 26, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	51 min
May 26, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	26 min
May 26, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	13 min
May 26, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	38 min
May 26, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wallace	2 hr
May 26, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	22 min
May 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	20 min
May 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas	44 min
May 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	26 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	101 min
May 26, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	22 min
May 26, 4:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	92 min
May 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	36 min
May 26, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	15 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	31 min
May 26, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	21 min
May 26, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	20 min
May 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	3 hr
May 26, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	47 min
May 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	43 min
May 26, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	58 min
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	14 min
May 26, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	2 hr
May 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	105 min
May 26, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	16 min
May 26, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	14 min
May 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	17 min
May 26, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	24 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	18 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	38 min
May 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	17 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	23 min
May 26, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
May 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	96 min
May 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
May 26, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	50 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	25 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.