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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2022, 6:20 PM CDT for Graham County, Norton 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
- Apr 29, 2022, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2022, 6:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 Apr 29, 6:11 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 6:11 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sheridan | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 2:08 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 38 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 3:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wichita | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 10:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Phillips | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 2:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 2:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 13 min |
| Apr 29, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 7:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 32 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.