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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS

June 11, 1987Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1987, 1:44 AM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1987, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1987, 2:20 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gove 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 1987-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1338 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 1987-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1338 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.8

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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 11, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas59 min
Jun 11, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.