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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

May 14, 2021Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2021, 8:05 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 10 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: May 14, 2021, 8:05 PM MDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2021, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 14, 6:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 11:36 AM MDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
1136 AM MDT Fri May 14 2021

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-151745-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
1136 AM MDT Fri May 14 2021 /1236 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021/

This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska...
northwest Kansas and east central Colorado.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

Severe thunderstorms will be possible across the region this
afternoon and evening. A few strong to severe storms are anticipated
to move into eastern Colorado during the mid to late afternoon hours.
Storms then increase in coverage as they progress eastward into
northwest Kansas and extreme southwest Nebraska in the evening. The
main hazards include large hail up to 2 inches, damaging wind gusts,
and locally heavy rainfall. A tornado or two cannot be ruled out.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

There is a risk for severe thunderstorms across the Tri-State area
for both Saturday and Sunday during afternoon and evening hours.

There will be a chance of thunderstorms each day of the beginning of
the next work week with a generally low possibility of severe
storms.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 7:35 PM MDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 7:43 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:46 PM MDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:48 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 7:55 PM MDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 8:05 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 6:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	26 min
May 14, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	67 min
May 14, 6:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	27 min
May 14, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	44 min
May 14, 7:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	27 min
May 14, 7:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	14 min
May 14, 7:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	25 min
May 14, 7:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	23 min
May 14, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	60 min
May 14, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	27 min
May 14, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	25 min
May 14, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	53 min
May 14, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan, Thomas	64 min
May 14, 7:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 14, 8:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	26 min
May 14, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	37 min
May 14, 8:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	14 min
May 14, 10:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	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.