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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Goodland, KS

July 22, 2023Wallace County, Kansas; Cheyenne County, Colorado

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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, Jul 22, 10:36 AM MDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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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Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:22 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:32 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:33 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 2:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton33 min
Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDNorton40 min
Jul 22, 2:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace25 min
Jul 22, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Norton63 min
Jul 22, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace46 min
Jul 22, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDGraham40 min
Jul 22, 3:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne34 min
Jul 22, 3:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace17 min
Jul 22, 4:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDNorton36 min
Jul 22, 4:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDLogan16 min
Jul 22, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGraham12 min
Jul 22, 4:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDGreeley24 min
Jul 22, 4:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDSherman34 min
Jul 22, 4:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne15 min
Jul 22, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace60 min
Jul 22, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace39 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDecatur17 min
Jul 22, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Norton48 min
Jul 22, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace23 min
Jul 22, 5:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace18 min
Jul 22, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan54 min
Jul 22, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley63 min
Jul 22, 5:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDWallace30 min
Jul 22, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins63 min
Jul 22, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLDDecatur, Sheridan31 min
Jul 21, 10:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDKit Carson36 min
Jul 22, 4:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne26 min
Jul 22, 4:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDCheyenne22 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDDundy27 min
Jul 22, 3:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRed Willow26 min
Jul 22, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDRed Willow30 min
Jul 22, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGLDHitchcock14 min
Jul 22, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2023Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2023Every 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.