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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Goodland, KS

June 28, 1989Rawlins County, Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1989, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rawlins County, KS, Thomas 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1989-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1949 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1989-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
1949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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.

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 28, 5:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TTAAKS KGLD 282214
KSZ001-004-282300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
510 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1989

.....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 559 FOR CHEYENNE...SHERMAN...RAWLINS...
THOMAS...DECATUR...AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES TILL 11PM CDT.....

AT 510 PM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN KANSAS.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN NEBRASKA FROM STRATTON AND THE SWANSON
RESERVOIR NORTH AND NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS SOUTHEAST 15 MPH.

THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO RAWLINS COUNTY...50 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GOODLAND BY 6PM CDT.

MYERS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins57 min
Jun 28, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.