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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Goodland, KS

June 29, 2023Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2023, 4:52 AM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2023, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2023, 5:19 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Thomas County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jun 29, 4:00 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 4:00 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 4:10 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:27 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:31 AM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:40 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:44 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:46 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:50 AM CDT, 2 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
Jun 28, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	23 min
Jun 28, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	30 min
Jun 28, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	36 min
Jun 28, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	45 min
Jun 28, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	27 min
Jun 29, 2:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	35 min
Jun 29, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Norton	75 min
Jun 29, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	32 min
Jun 29, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	37 min
Jun 29, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	28 min
Jun 29, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	35 min
Jun 29, 3:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	33 min
Jun 29, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	47 min
Jun 29, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	31 min
Jun 29, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	36 min
Jun 29, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	35 min
Jun 28, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	55 min
Jun 28, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Yuma	58 min
Jun 29, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	34 min
Jun 29, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	59 min
Jun 29, 2:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	23 min
Jun 29, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	18 min
Jun 29, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy	58 min
Jun 29, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	63 min
Jun 29, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	80 min
Jun 29, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	24 min
Jun 29, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Dundy	64 min
Jun 29, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	48 min
Jun 29, 2:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	24 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.