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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 26, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2021, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
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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 26, 5:55 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 5:55 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 320 PM MDT Wed May 26 2021 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-271300- Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas- Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock- Red Willow- 320 PM MDT Wed May 26 2021 /420 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021/ This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska... northwest Kansas and east central Colorado. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... The threat for severe thunderstorms remains possible through late this evening. Any storms that do develop will be capable of producing hail up to the size of tennis balls, wind gusts to 70 mph and a few tornadoes. Locally heavy rainfall will also be possible and could produce flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... Showers and thunderstorms will be possible over the weekend and into Monday. Areas receiving heavy rainfall may experience flash flooding. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will be needed. We would appreciate reports of hail in excess of one inch in diameter, wind gusts in excess of 60 mph, funnel clouds, tornadoes, and flash flooding via telephone and social media.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 5:37 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 26, 9:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 19 min |
| May 26, 9:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 16 min |
| May 26, 9:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 67 min |
| May 26, 10:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 30 min |
| May 26, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 66 min |
| May 26, 10:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 13 min |
| May 26, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 26, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 56 min |
| May 26, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 68 min |
| May 26, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 28 min |
| May 26, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 19 min |
| May 26, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 27 min |
| May 26, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 27 min |
| May 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 33 min |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 45 min |
| May 26, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 35 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 48 min |
| May 26, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| May 26, 11:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 9 min |
| May 26, 11:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 35 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 55 min |
| May 26, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 57 min |
| May 26, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 52 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 44 min |
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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.