Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 2021, 6:29 PM MDT for Greeley County, Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 12, 2021, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2021, 7:08 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greeley County, KS, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:30 PM MDT | TORNADO 1 | Sharon Springs, KS | DISPATCH REPORT OF TORNADO HITTING GOLF COURSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SHARON SPRINGS. POWERLINES WERE REPORTED DOWN. |
| Oct 12, 6:30 PM MDT | TORNADO | Sharon Springs, KS | CORRECTS PREVIOUS TORNADO REPORT FROM SHARON SPRINGS. DISPATCH REPORT OF TORNADO HITTING GOLF COURSE ON SOUTH SIDE OF SHARON SPRINGS. POWERLINES WERE REPORTED DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WUUS53 KGLD 130029
SVRGLD
KSC071-199-130130-
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
629 PM MDT Tue Oct 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Eastern Wallace County in west central Kansas...
Eastern Greeley County in west central Kansas...
* Until 730 PM MDT.
* At 629 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 10 miles northwest of Wallace to 12 miles south of
Horace, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Public.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of
eastern Wallace and eastern Greeley Counties.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for west central
Kansas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for west central
Kansas.
&&
LAT...LON 3912 10179 3913 10148 3870 10148 3870 10157
3826 10157 3826 10179
TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 251DEG 33KT 3905 10167 3830 10185
HAIL THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
0242 follow-up statements
939
WWUS53 KGLD 130052
SVSGLD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
652 PM MDT Tue Oct 12 2021
KSC071-199-130130-
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Wallace KS-Greeley KS-
652 PM MDT Tue Oct 12 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM MDT
FOR EASTERN WALLACE AND EASTERN GREELEY COUNTIES...
At 652 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 12 miles northeast of Wallace to 10 miles southeast of
Tribune, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Public.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Sharon Springs, Tribune, Horace and Wallace.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for west central
Kansas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for west central
Kansas.
LAT...LON 3912 10179 3913 10148 3870 10148 3870 10157
3826 10157 3826 10179
TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 253DEG 29KT 3908 10149 3837 10161
HAIL THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
024876
WWUS53 KGLD 130108
SVSGLD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
708 PM MDT Tue Oct 12 2021
KSC071-199-130117-
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Wallace KS-Greeley KS-
708 PM MDT Tue Oct 12 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN WALLACE AND EASTERN
GREELEY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds are
still possible with these thunderstorms.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for west central
Kansas.
LAT...LON 3912 10179 3913 10148 3870 10148 3870 10157
3826 10157 3826 10179
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 251DEG 33KT 3913 10132 3842 10144
$$
024The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 6:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 6:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 15 min |
| Oct 12, 6:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 21 min |
| Oct 12, 7:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 31 min |
| Oct 12, 8:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 34 min |
| Oct 12, 8:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 23 min |
| Oct 12, 9:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham, Norton | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 3:00 AM MDT | Frost Advisory | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 30 hr |
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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.