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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Goodland, KS

June 14, 2024Cheyenne County, Kansas; Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2024, 7:36 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas; Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 69 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: Jun 14, 2024, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2024, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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
Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.2

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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 Jun 14, 7:04 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 7:04 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook...UPDATED
National Weather Service Goodland KS
545 PM MDT Fri Jun 14 2024

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-152345-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
545 PM MDT Fri Jun 14 2024 /645 PM CDT Fri Jun 14 2024/

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for the entire Tri-State
area this evening. Damaging winds and quarter size hail are the
primary hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

A few thunderstorms may develop east of Highway 83 in northwest
Kansas late Saturday afternoon. An isolated severe thunderstorm
capable of producing quarter size hail and wind gusts up to 65 mph is
possible, should storms develop.

Hot temperatures return for Sunday with highs in the upper 90s to
lower 100s.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are encouraged to report any severe or significant weather
to the National Weather Service in Goodland via social media or
telephone.

Vincent

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:18 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:23 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:25 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:31 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:35 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
Jun 14, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	42 min
Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	20 min
Jun 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	GLD	Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas	47 min
Jun 14, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas	49 min
Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	35 min
Jun 14, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	33 min
Jun 14, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	36 min
Jun 14, 8:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	35 min
Jun 14, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	43 min
Jun 14, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	32 min
Jun 14, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	30 min
Jun 14, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	45 min
Jun 14, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	11 min
Jun 14, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	33 min
Jun 15, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	38 min
Jun 15, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Kit Carson	49 min
Jun 14, 8:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2024 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2024 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.