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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Goodland, KS

August 7, 2022Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2022, 2:52 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2022, 2:52 PM MDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2022, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2022-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 7, 2:06 PM MDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:06 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:00 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 8:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley34 min
Aug 6, 8:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace46 min
Aug 6, 9:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace43 min
Aug 6, 10:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace54 min
Aug 6, 11:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman30 min
Aug 7, 2:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita60 min
Aug 7, 2:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita32 min
Aug 7, 3:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita26 min
Aug 7, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita20 min
Aug 7, 4:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita12 min
Aug 7, 4:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGove22 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWichita14 min
Aug 6, 7:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne24 min
Aug 6, 7:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne19 min
Aug 6, 8:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne33 min
Aug 6, 9:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson38 min
Aug 6, 9:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson36 min
Aug 7, 2:12 AM MDTFlood WatchGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson22 hr

Nearby

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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.