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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Goodland, KS

June 26, 1989Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 5:09 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1989, 5:09 PM MDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1989, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
51 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 343 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1269 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 12:00Z on 1989-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
261 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 26, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis, Trego62 min
Jun 26, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis26 min
Jun 26, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRush36 min
Jun 26, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess57 min
Jun 26, 1:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDouglas, Elbert61 min
Jun 26, 2:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert51 min
Jun 26, 3:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEl Paso43 min
Jun 26, 3:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert43 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.