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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Goodland, KS

June 24, 1989Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1989, 5:13 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1989, 5:13 PM MDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1989, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 1989-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 53 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1989-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 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
53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
786 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 24, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne2 hr
Jun 24, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne2 hr
Jun 24, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma35 min
Jun 24, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma45 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.