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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS

May 25, 1987Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1987, 10:32 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1987, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1987, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rawlins County, KS

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 246 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2631 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2631 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
10.7

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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
May 25, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton24 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.