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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2021, 10:21 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 15, 2021, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2021, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted.
577 WUUS53 KGLD 160321 SVRGLD KSC063-160400- /O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0044.210516T0321Z-210516T0400Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Goodland KS 1021 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021 The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Gove County in west central Kansas... * Until 1100 PM CDT. * At 1021 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 12 miles northeast of Scott State Lake, moving east at 5 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of southwestern Gove County, including the following locations... The Monument Rocks. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3890 10081 3893 10054 3870 10051 3870 10081 TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 265DEG 4KT 3879 10075 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ JN
1 follow-up statement
432 WWUS53 KGLD 160340 SVSGLD Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Goodland KS 1040 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021 KSC063-160400- /O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0044.000000T0000Z-210516T0400Z/ Gove KS- 1040 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY... At 1040 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles northeast of Scott State Lake, and is nearly stationary. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... The Monument Rocks. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3890 10081 3893 10054 3870 10051 3870 10081 TIME...MOT...LOC 0340Z 265DEG 4KT 3879 10072 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ JN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 41 min |
| May 15, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| May 15, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 36 min |
| May 15, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 4 hr |
| May 15, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 44 min |
| May 15, 9:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 4 hr |
| May 15, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 45 min |
| May 15, 9:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 55 min |
| May 15, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 58 min |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 3 hr |
| May 15, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 58 min |
| May 15, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 3 hr |
| May 15, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 42 min |
| May 15, 11:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham, Sheridan, Thomas | 55 min |
| May 15, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wichita | 2 hr |
| May 15, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 40 min |
| May 15, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 15 min |
| May 16, 12:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 41 min |
| May 16, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 78 min |
| May 16, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham, Sheridan, Thomas | 75 min |
| May 16, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove, Logan | 57 min |
| May 16, 1:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Wichita | 5 hr |
| May 16, 1:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace, Wichita | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 23 hr |
| May 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| May 16, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 16, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 41 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.