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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 401, NWS Goodland, KS

October 3, 2023Greeley County, Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 2023, 12:48 PM MDT for Greeley County, Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas. 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: Oct 3, 2023, 12:48 PM MDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 2023, 1:45 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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
Oct 3, 12:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -302 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 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 Oct 3, 12:46 PM MDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 12:46 PM MDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 10:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 3, 7:39 AM MDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 3, 10:47 AM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Oct 3, 12:29 PM MDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 3, 12:30 PM MDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 3, 12:39 PM MDT, 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
Oct 3, 12:48 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	27 min
Oct 3, 12:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	63 min
Oct 3, 12:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	15 min
Oct 3, 12:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Greeley	22 min
Oct 3, 12:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	33 min
Oct 3, 1:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	23 min
Oct 3, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	27 min
Oct 3, 1:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Wichita	27 min
Oct 3, 1:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	34 min
Oct 3, 1:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Thomas	62 min
Oct 3, 1:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	42 min
Oct 3, 2:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	27 min
Oct 3, 2:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	28 min
Oct 3, 2:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	36 min
Oct 3, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas	63 min
Oct 3, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	17 min
Oct 3, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	38 min
Oct 3, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	35 min
Oct 3, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	48 min
Oct 3, 2:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	26 min
Oct 3, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Norton	54 min
Oct 3, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	35 min
Oct 3, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	34 min
Oct 3, 3:20 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Norton	25 min
Oct 3, 3:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	43 min
Oct 3, 3:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	36 min
Oct 3, 3:49 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	26 min
Oct 3, 4:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	24 min
Oct 3, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham	17 min
Oct 3, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur	16 min
Oct 3, 12:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	36 min
Oct 3, 2:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Oct 3, 12:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	16 min
Oct 3, 12:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	26 min
Oct 3, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	29 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.