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Special Weather Statement, NWS Goodland, KS

July 22, 2023Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2023, 4:21 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2023, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2023, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 55

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 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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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 10:36 AM MDT, 5 hours 45 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

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:04 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:05 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:09 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:14 PM MDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:18 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:21 PM MDT, 0 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 22, 2:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	33 min
Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	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 Considerable damage threat	GLD	Graham	40 min
Jul 22, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	47 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, 4:26 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 Considerable damage threat	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.