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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS

April 22, 2022Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2022, 10:04 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2022, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2022, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 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 22, 9:08 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 9:08 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 9:09 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:16 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:23 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:25 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:37 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:55 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 22, 9:57 PM CDT, 7 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, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	30 min
Apr 22, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	51 min
Apr 22, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	43 min
Apr 22, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Wichita	11 min
Apr 22, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	36 min
Apr 22, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	31 min
Apr 22, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	26 min
Apr 22, 8:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	17 min
Apr 22, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	17 min
Apr 22, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita	64 min
Apr 22, 11:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	38 min
Apr 22, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	41 min
Apr 22, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	17 min
Apr 22, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	65 min
Apr 22, 11:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	18 min
Apr 23, 12:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	27 min
Apr 23, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	26 min
Apr 23, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Thomas	20 min
Apr 23, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	15 min
Apr 23, 12:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Thomas	20 min
Apr 23, 12:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	15 min
Apr 23, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas, Wichita	54 min
Apr 23, 12:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	24 min
Apr 23, 1:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	26 min
Apr 23, 1:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas	28 min
Apr 23, 1:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	37 min
Apr 23, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	64 min
Apr 23, 1:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	9 min
Apr 23, 2:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove, Graham, Sheridan	27 min
Apr 23, 3:37 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	17 hr
Apr 22, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	59 min

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.