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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2021Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2021, 9:38 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2021, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 9.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

466 
WUUS53 KGLD 270238
SVRGLD
NEC145-270300-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0101.210527T0238Z-210527T0300Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
938 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Red Willow County in southwestern Nebraska...

* Until 1000 PM CDT.

* At 938 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lebanon, or
  19 miles east of McCook, moving east at 30 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southeastern Red Willow County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for northwestern
Kansas...and southwestern Nebraska.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for northwestern
Kansas...and southwestern Nebraska.

LAT...LON 4000 10019 4000 10051 4012 10039 4014 10019
TIME...MOT...LOC 0238Z 264DEG 26KT 4010 10028 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Lockhart

1 follow-up statement

669 
WWUS53 KGLD 270254
SVSGLD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
954 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

NEC145-270304-
/O.EXP.KGLD.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-210527T0300Z/
Red Willow NE-
954 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN RED WILLOW COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 1000 PM CDT...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for northwestern
Kansas...and southwestern Nebraska.

LAT...LON 4000 10019 4000 10051 4012 10039 4014 10019
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 264DEG 26KT 4011 10014 

$$

Lockhart

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	8 hr
May 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	42 min
May 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	39 min
May 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	27 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	28 min
May 26, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	57 min
May 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	48 min
May 26, 8:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	6 hr
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	17 min
May 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	46 min
May 26, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	66 min
May 26, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	62 min
May 27, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	62 min
May 27, 5:16 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	GLD	Hitchcock	11 hr
May 27, 7:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	80 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.