Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1989, 6:44 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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 28, 1989, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cheyenne, KS | |
| Jun 28, 7:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cheyenne, KS | |
| Jun 28, 7:38 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Cheyenne, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 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
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 30 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 57 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.