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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 1986Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1986, 3:20 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1986, 3:20 PM MDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1986, 4:20 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 1986-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 56 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-339 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins45 min
Jun 23, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.