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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 2021Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2021, 11:03 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2021, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

805 
WUUS53 KGLD 160403
SVRGLD
KSC063-109-160445-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0046.210516T0403Z-210516T0445Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1103 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Logan County in west central Kansas...
  Southwestern Gove County in west central Kansas...

* Until 1145 PM CDT.

* At 1103 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northeast
  of Scott State Lake, moving west at 5 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  southeastern Logan and southwestern Gove Counties.

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 3885 10075 3870 10081 3878 10103 3889 10101
      3895 10087
TIME...MOT...LOC 0403Z 108DEG 6KT 3880 10084 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

JN

1 follow-up statement

921 
WWUS53 KGLD 160429
SVSGLD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1129 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021

KSC063-109-160445-
/O.CON.KGLD.SV.W.0046.000000T0000Z-210516T0445Z/
Logan KS-Gove KS-
1129 PM CDT Sat May 15 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN AND SOUTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTIES...

At 1129 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles north of
Scott State Lake, moving west at 5 mph.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Logan and southwestern Gove Counties.

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 3885 10075 3870 10081 3878 10103 3889 10101
      3895 10087
TIME...MOT...LOC 0429Z 108DEG 6KT 3881 10089 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

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, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	39 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, 11:20 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.