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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 2020Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2020, 9:57 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas; Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 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 15, 2020, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2020, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2020-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2020-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman58 min
May 15, 11:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne, Sherman40 min
May 16, 12:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman, Wallace33 min
May 16, 1:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley, Logan, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita72 min
May 15, 7:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma32 min
May 15, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma40 min
May 15, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma49 min
May 15, 8:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDYuma37 min
May 15, 9:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson38 min
May 15, 9:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson30 min
May 15, 10:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson33 min
May 15, 11:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2020Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.