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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2023, 3:43 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 47 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 22, 2023, 3:43 PM MDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2023, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Wallace County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Goodland KS 1036 AM MDT Sat Jul 22 2023 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-231645- Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas- Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock- Red Willow- 1036 AM MDT Sat Jul 22 2023 /1136 AM CDT Sat Jul 22 2023/ This hazardous weather outlook is for extreme southwest Nebraska... northwest Kansas and east central Colorado. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... There is a Slight Risk of severe thunderstorms from around 3 PM MDT (4 PM CDT) through 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) for locations generally east of a line from McCook, Nebraska, to Tribune, Kansas, with a Marginal Risk further west. The primary hazards will be large hail and damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... The Tri-State Area has heat indices reaching into the triple digits generally along and east of Kansas Highway 25 Monday through Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be required.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:21 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 3:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 3:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 17 min |
| Jul 22, 4:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Norton | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 4:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Logan | 16 min |
| Jul 22, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Graham | 12 min |
| Jul 22, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 4:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Sherman | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 15 min |
| Jul 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Decatur | 17 min |
| Jul 22, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 18 min |
| Jul 22, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 5:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 63 min |
| Jul 22, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 31 min |
| Jul 21, 10:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 4:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 22 min |
| Jul 22, 3:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Dundy | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 3:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 4:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Red Willow | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 4:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Hitchcock | 14 min |
| Jul 22, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 52 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.