Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1987, 4:00 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1987, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1987, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso 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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 10:53 AM MDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1100 AM MDT WED JUN 24 1987 AT 1100 AM MDT RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS IN A 15 MILE WIDE BAND IN NORTHWEST KANSAS BETWEEN NORTON AND COLBY MOVING EAST 15MPH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSHOWERS IN NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS BETWEEN HOXIE AND SCOTT CITY ARE MOVING EAST 15 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING WITH THIS PRECIPITATION. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO REDEVELOP THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT WITH SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT UNTIL PRECIPITATION BECOMES SIGNIFICANT. FURTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE WITH NETWORK RADARS RADAR NARRATIVE SUMMARIES IS SUED HOURLY ON THE HALF HOUR. MYERS
Local storm report, Jun 24, 12:03 PM MDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT FOR TUE JUN 23 1987...DELAYED REPORT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1158 AM MDT WED JUNE 24 1987
ALL TIMES MDT.
2236 PM...TSTM WIND 65 KT. 3 E GOODLAND. IRIGATION SaPRINKLER SYSTEM
BLOWN OVER. (SHERMAN COUNTY)
MYERSSpecial weather statement, Jun 24, 2:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 255 PM MDT WED JUN 24 1987 .....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 257 IS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN KANSAS AND A LARGE PART OF EASTERN COLORADO TILL 8PM MDT THIS EVENING.. AT 250 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF INTENSE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST TO EASTERN COLORADO. THE LINE EXTENDS FROM CURTIS NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST TO JUST WEST OF BENKELMAN NEBRASKA...SOUTHWEST TO JUST WEST OF IDELIA COLORADO... SOUTHWEST TO WEST OF LIMON COLORADO. MOVEMENT IS EAST 25 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY PRECIPITATION IS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS. HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORM LINE IN EASTERN COLORADO WILL BE MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS IN CHEYENNE COUNTY BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM MDT. MYERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 10:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 11:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 68 min |
| Jun 23, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 68 min |
| Jun 23, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 3:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Elbert, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso, Lincoln | 76 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.