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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Goodland, KS

June 3, 2020Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2020, 7:19 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 3, 2020, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2020, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2053 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jun 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 6:49 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:27 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
527 PM MDT Wed Jun 3 2020

KSZ027-041-042-032345-
Wichita KS-Wallace KS-Greeley KS-
527 PM MDT Wed Jun 3 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WICHITA...SOUTH
CENTRAL WALLACE AND NORTHEASTERN GREELEY COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM
MDT/645 PM CDT/...

At 527 PM MDT/627 PM CDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong
thunderstorm 13 miles north of Tribune, moving southeast at 25 mph.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern
Wichita, south central Wallace and northeastern Greeley Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3867 10190 3881 10173 3867 10142 3844 10166
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 314DEG 21KT 3867 10172

Husted

Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:44 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:13 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:15 PM CDT, 4 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
Jun 3, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	47 min
Jun 3, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	23 min
Jun 3, 9:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	29 min
Jun 4, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	28 min
Jun 4, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	14 min
Jun 4, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	19 min
Jun 4, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	67 min
Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	46 min
Jun 4, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	53 min
Jun 4, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	63 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	51 min
Jun 4, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	37 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	47 min
Jun 4, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	19 min
Jun 4, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	46 min
Jun 4, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	40 min
Jun 4, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	72 min
Jun 3, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	45 min
Jun 3, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	30 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.