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Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS

April 23, 2022Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2022, 2:37 AM MDT for Greeley County, Wichita County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 23, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2022, 2:37 AM MDT (08:37 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: Apr 23, 2022, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS

Counties Greeley County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1942 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 10.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 23, 1:05 AM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 1:05 AM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 1:06 AM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 23, 12:07 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1207 AM MDT SAT APR 23 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1030 PM     HAIL             3 NNE WESKAN            38.89N 101.94W
04/22/2022  M1.75 INCH       WALLACE            KS   PUBLIC

            FACEBOOK REPORT OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:07 AM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:23 AM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:29 AM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:49 AM MDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 1:58 AM MDT, 39 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
Apr 22, 6:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	30 min
Apr 22, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	51 min
Apr 22, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	43 min
Apr 22, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Wichita	11 min
Apr 22, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	36 min
Apr 22, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	31 min
Apr 22, 7:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	26 min
Apr 22, 7:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	17 min
Apr 22, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	26 min
Apr 22, 9:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	17 min
Apr 22, 9:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita	64 min
Apr 22, 10:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	38 min
Apr 22, 10:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	41 min
Apr 22, 10:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	17 min
Apr 22, 10:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	65 min
Apr 22, 10:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	18 min
Apr 22, 11:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	27 min
Apr 22, 11:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	26 min
Apr 22, 11:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Thomas	20 min
Apr 22, 11:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	15 min
Apr 22, 11:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Thomas	20 min
Apr 22, 11:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	15 min
Apr 22, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas, Wichita	54 min
Apr 22, 11:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	24 min
Apr 23, 12:04 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	26 min
Apr 23, 12:17 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas	28 min
Apr 23, 12:38 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	37 min
Apr 23, 12:41 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	64 min
Apr 23, 12:41 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	9 min
Apr 23, 1:03 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	27 min
Apr 22, 9:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	59 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.