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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Goodland, KS

April 25, 20245 counties in Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2024, 6:57 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 49 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: Apr 25, 2024, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2024, 7:46 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1058 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 413 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 Apr 25, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Goodland KS
358 PM MDT Thu Apr 25 2024

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-262200-
Yuma-Kit Carson-Cheyenne-Rawlins-Decatur-Norton-Sherman-Thomas-
Sheridan-Graham-Wallace-Logan-Gove-Greeley-Wichita-Dundy-Hitchcock-
Red Willow-
358 PM MDT Thu Apr 25 2024 /458 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2024/

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

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

A Tornado Watch remains in effect for the entire Tri-State area
until 9 pm MDT, 10 pm CDT this evening.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

A few severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail are
possible Saturday afternoon and evening, mainly in northwest Kansas.

.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, Apr 25, 6:42 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:43 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:46 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:54 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 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
Apr 25, 2:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	38 min
Apr 25, 3:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	34 min
Apr 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	63 min
Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	59 min
Apr 25, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	66 min
Apr 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	59 min
Apr 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	33 min
Apr 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	59 min
Apr 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	42 min
Apr 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	55 min
Apr 25, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	63 min
Apr 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	39 min
Apr 25, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	56 min
Apr 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	26 min
Apr 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	37 min
Apr 25, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins, Thomas	61 min
Apr 25, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	37 min
Apr 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	30 min
Apr 25, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace	61 min
Apr 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	27 min
Apr 25, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	20 min
Apr 25, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	24 min
Apr 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	33 min
Apr 25, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Dundy	25 min
Apr 25, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	54 min
Apr 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	58 min
Apr 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Red Willow	31 min
Apr 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	28 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.