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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 2023Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2023, 6:03 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas; Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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: Jul 19, 2023, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rawlins County, KS, Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Jul 19, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 1171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -449 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Jul 19, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
256 PM MDT Wed Jul 19 2023

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-202100-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
256 PM MDT Wed Jul 19 2023 /356 PM CDT Wed Jul 19 2023/

This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska...
northwest Kansas and east central Colorado.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for the entire area through
10pm MT or 11pm CT. Large hail and damaging wind gusts are the
primary threat.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

Severe thunderstorms are possible again tomorrow afternoon with a
large hail threat initially. Going into the evening hours, the
severe threat will transition to damaging wind gusts with heavy rain
that could lead to flooding. Heavy rainfall and flooding is the
currently forecasted main threat.

The Tri-State Area sees heat indices reaching into the lower triple
digits in some locations on Sunday through Wednesday. Please
consider making preparations for multiple days of very hot
conditions.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Any reports of hail or wind gusts above 50 mph would be appreciated!

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:31 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:33 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:34 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:44 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:54 PM CDT, 9 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
Jul 19, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	31 min
Jul 19, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	26 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	31 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Jul 19, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	50 min
Jul 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	33 min
Jul 19, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	46 min
Jul 19, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	55 min
Jul 19, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	67 min
Jul 19, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	67 min
Jul 18, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	42 min
Jul 18, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	34 min
Jul 19, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	23 min
Jul 19, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	24 min
Jul 19, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	33 min
Jul 19, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	28 min
Jul 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	31 min
Jul 19, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	37 min
Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2023 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.