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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 2024Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2024, 8:32 PM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 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 3, 2024, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2024, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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
Jul 3, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 369 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -272 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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 3, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
339 PM MDT Wed Jul 3 2024

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-042145-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
339 PM MDT Wed Jul 3 2024 /439 PM CDT Wed Jul 3 2024/

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until 900 PM MDT for the
entire Tri State area. Threats include up to large hail up to 2 to 3
inches, damaging wind gusts up to 70 to 80 mph, brief tornadoes or
landspouts and even locally heavy rainfall are possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be required. Please send any storm reports to
NWS Goodland via phone, email or social media.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 6:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 6:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 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 3, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	23 min
Jul 3, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Jul 3, 7:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Sherman	3 hr
Jul 3, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sherman	36 min
Jul 3, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	25 min
Jul 3, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Thomas	36 min
Jul 3, 8:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Sheridan	25 min
Jul 3, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	32 min
Jul 3, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Graham, Sheridan	36 min
Jul 3, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Decatur, Norton	39 min
Jul 3, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	33 min
Jul 3, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	45 min
Jul 3, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Graham	23 min
Jul 3, 7:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GLD	Kit Carson	3 hr
Jul 3, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	32 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.