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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Goodland, KS

June 9, 1986Elbert County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1986, 3:00 PM MDT for Elbert County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1986, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1986, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elbert County, CO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 4:00 PM MDTHail 0.88Elbert, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:00 AM MDT, 4 hours before
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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
100 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

AT 1PM A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
FROM GOVE NORTHWARD TO JUST EAST OF OAKLEY...NORTH TO JUST EAST OF
COLBY...NORTH TO THE ATWOOD AREA...AND NORTH INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
IN THE STRATTON AREA.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST 15 MPH.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SOME SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING CAN  BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER STORM CENTERS.

MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 1:00 PM MDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
200 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

AT 2PM A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
FROM COLLYER WHICH IS 8 MILES WEST OF WAKEENEY...NORTH TO HOXIE...
NORTH TO OBERLIN...THEN NORTHWEST INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA IN THE
STRATTON AREA. ANOTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS IN THE ATWOOD AREA.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST 15 MPH.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SOME SMALL HAIL...GUS_TY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER STORM CENTERS.

MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 1:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
250 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

AT 250 PM THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ARE MOVING NORTH
NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. THE REMAINING THUNDERSTORMS IN
NORTHWEST KANSAS ARE IN DECATUR AND NORTON COUNTIES BETWEEN OBERLIN
AND NORTON...AND IN THE DRESDEN AREA 10 MILES SOUTH OF OBERLIN.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST 20 MPH.

AS THE STORMS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA THEY ARE WEAKENING AND ONLY BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS AND SOME GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED.

MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:55 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
350 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

AT 350 PM MOST OF THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA. LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ARE SOUTH OF
ATWOOD...NORTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...AMD EAST OF STOCKTON.

THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST 20 MPH.

THESE STORMS ARE NOT SEVERE AND ONLY BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS
ARE EXPECTED.

A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIXONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS WILL TAKE EFFECT AT
415PM CDT. THE AREA OF WESTERN KANSAS AFFECTED IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
SHARON SPRINGS TO WAKEENEY.

MYERS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane, Scott65 min
Jun 9, 4:35 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln40 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.