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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

May 23, 2021Rawlins County, Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2021, 10:40 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 23, 2021, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2021, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 23, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 10:29 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 9:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 9:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 9:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 10:27 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 10:40 PM CDT, 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 23, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	50 min
May 23, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	55 min
May 23, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	32 min
May 23, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	63 min
May 23, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	60 min
May 23, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	63 min
May 23, 11:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan, Thomas	59 min
May 23, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	33 min
May 24, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	32 min
May 24, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wallace	30 min
May 24, 6:07 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	4 hr
May 24, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	14 min
May 24, 1:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	16 min
May 24, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wichita	40 min
May 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	67 min
May 24, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	23 min
May 24, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	27 min
May 24, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	50 min
May 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace, Wichita	3 hr
May 24, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	12 min
May 24, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	15 min
May 24, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	58 min
May 24, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	32 min
May 24, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	20 min
May 24, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	20 min
May 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	40 min
May 24, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	39 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	25 min
May 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	52 min
May 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	70 min
May 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	70 min
May 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	22 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas	64 min
May 24, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	44 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	42 min
May 24, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	52 min
May 24, 6:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	22 min
May 24, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	33 min
May 23, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	29 min
May 23, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
May 23, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	39 min
May 23, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	38 min
May 23, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	50 min
May 23, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	46 min
May 23, 9:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	9 min
May 23, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	27 min
May 23, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	36 min
May 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	25 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.