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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

June 16, 2019Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 15 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
Jun 16, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2019, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 16, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 4:25 AM CDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
325 AM MDT Sun Jun 16 2019

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-170930-
Yuma County-Kit Carson County-Cheyenne County-Cheyenne-Rawlins-
Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-
Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-Red Willow-
325 AM MDT Sun Jun 16 2019 /425 AM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019/

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

Isolated severe thunderstorms will be possible north of Interstate 70
in northeast Colorado, southwest Nebraska, and extreme northwest
Kansas late Sunday afternoon and evening. Quarter size hail and wind
gusts up to 65 mph will be the primary hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

Episodic showers and thunderstorms are expected across the Tri-
State area on Monday and Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms and locally
heavy rainfall will be possible on both days, primarily during the
late afternoon and evening hours.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and evening.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:33 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:55 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 5:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins3 hr
Jun 16, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne14 min
Jun 16, 6:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne24 min
Jun 16, 6:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Jun 16, 6:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman25 min
Jun 15, 9:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne55 min
Jun 15, 10:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne58 min
Jun 16, 2:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock27 min
Jun 16, 2:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy35 min
Jun 16, 3:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock28 min
Jun 16, 3:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock36 min
Jun 16, 4:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock23 min
Jun 16, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy31 min
Jun 16, 5:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy25 min
Jun 16, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock38 min
Jun 16, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock16 min
Jun 16, 5:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDDundy3 hr
Jun 16, 6:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock26 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.