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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Goodland, KS

June 24, 1987Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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 24, 1987, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

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 24, 7:07 PM CDTHail 1.25Graham, KS
Jun 24, 7:28 PM CDTHail 1Graham, KS

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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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 1987-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1286 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1987-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
1286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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

Local storm report, Jun 24, 1:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 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)
MYERS
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace36 min
Jun 23, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman60 min
Jun 24, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas58 min
Jun 24, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 min
Jun 24, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur63 min
Jun 24, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman65 min
Jun 24, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan56 min
Jun 23, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert66 min
Jun 23, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso56 min
Jun 23, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert, Lincoln68 min
Jun 23, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso68 min
Jun 23, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson51 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLincoln34 min
Jun 23, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson56 min
Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDElbert, Lincoln33 min
Jun 24, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson62 min
Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso60 min
Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert60 min
Jun 24, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso, Lincoln76 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.