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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2021, 9:34 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 11 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 16, 2021, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2021, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Rawlins County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
724
WUUS53 KGLD 170234
SVRGLD
KSC153-193-170315-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0055.210517T0234Z-210517T0315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
934 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Thomas County in northwestern Kansas...
South central Rawlins County in northwestern Kansas...
* Until 1015 PM CDT.
* At 934 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles north of
Colby, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
north central Thomas and south central Rawlins 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 3965 10119 3966 10106 3964 10094 3943 10089
3943 10108 3950 10124
TIME...MOT...LOC 0234Z 359DEG 10KT 3959 10108
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$
JN1 follow-up statement
058
WWUS53 KGLD 170245
SVSGLD
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Goodland KS
945 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
KSC153-193-170254-
/O.CAN.KGLD.SV.W.0055.000000T0000Z-210517T0315Z/
Thomas KS-Rawlins KS-
945 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL THOMAS AND SOUTH
CENTRAL RAWLINS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3965 10119 3966 10106 3964 10094 3943 10089
3943 10108 3950 10124
TIME...MOT...LOC 0243Z 359DEG 10KT 3956 10108
$$
JNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| May 16, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sherman | 63 min |
| May 16, 8:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| May 16, 9:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 35 min |
| May 16, 9:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| May 16, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 78 min |
| May 16, 9:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 71 min |
| May 16, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 3 hr |
| May 16, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 49 min |
| May 16, 10:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 53 min |
| May 16, 10:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 62 min |
| May 16, 11:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 2 hr |
| May 17, 1:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Wallace | 6 hr |
| May 17, 1:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 6 hr |
| May 17, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.