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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1989, 7:05 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1989, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
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, May 3, 2:51 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ004-007-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 150 PM MDT WED MAY 3 1989 AT 150PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG THE KANSAS... NEBRASKA BORDER NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATWOOD TO OBERLIN TO NORTON. THIS IS 50 TO 100 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING EAST 20 MPH AND HAVE NOW TURNED AND ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST 20MPH. THIS WILL PLACE THE HEAVIER STORMS BETWEEN OBERLIN AND NORTON BETWEEN 2 AND 3PM MDT. PRESENTLY THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN DANBURY AND CAMBRIDGE. MYERS
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ004-007-032130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 223 PM MDT WED MAY 3 1989 AT 223PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS 25 TO 100 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM COLBY NORTHEAST TO OBERLIN THEN EAST TO NORTON. SOME SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STRONGER STORM CENTERS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE BETWEEN OBERLIN AND NORTON...IN THE NORCATUR AND SEBILIUS RESERVOIR AREAS... OTHER THAN THE HEAVY STORM AREA THE REMAINDER WILL BE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE PHILLIPSBURG AREA BY 3PM MDT. THE RAIN SHOULD BE OVER IN THE ATWOOD AND OBERLIN AREAS BY 3PM MDT. MYERS
Special weather statement, May 3, 4:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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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.