Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2021, 8:58 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2021, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2021, 9:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Sw Levant, KS | OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED QUARTER SIZED HAIL THAT LASTED FOR A 10 MINUTE DURATION. |
| Aug 25, 9:04 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 58 | 10 Wsw Mingo, KS | REPORTED VIA WEATHER UNDERGROUND STATION KKSCOLBY28. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
370
WUUS53 KGLD 260158
SVRGLD
KSC193-260245-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0217.210826T0158Z-210826T0245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
858 PM CDT Wed Aug 25 2021
The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Thomas County in northwestern Kansas...
* Until 945 PM CDT.
* At 857 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of
Winona, or 14 miles south of Levant, moving north at 25 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Levant and Colby.
This includes Interstate 70 in Kansas between mile markers 37 and 60.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
This thunderstorm will produce damaging winds resulting in areas of
near zero visibility in blowing dirt. Use extreme caution if you must
travel and be alert for rapidly changing visibility.
&&
LAT...LON 3914 10136 3915 10136 3957 10139 3957 10088
3913 10103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 189DEG 23KT 3917 10123
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$
0241 follow-up statement
888
WWUS53 KGLD 260232
SVSGLD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
932 PM CDT Wed Aug 25 2021
KSC193-260241-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0217.000000T0000Z-210826T0245Z/
Thomas KS-
932 PM CDT Wed Aug 25 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THOMAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds are
still possible with this thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3914 10136 3915 10136 3957 10139 3957 10088
3913 10103
TIME...MOT...LOC 0228Z 189DEG 23KT 3939 10119
$$
024The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 30 min |
| Aug 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 9:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Aug 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 34 min |
| Aug 26, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 23 min |
| Aug 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 6:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.