Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1989, 2:41 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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
- Aug 16, 1989, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1989, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | El Paso, CO | |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | El Paso, CO |
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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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
Local storm report, Aug 16, 1:22 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 122 PM MDT WED AUG 16 1989 STORM REPORT FOR AUG 15 1989...DELAYED REPORT...... 1547 MDT...SHERMAN COUNTY...8W GOODLAND HAIL 1 INCH. 1554 MDT...SWHERMAN COUNTY...10 SW GOODLAND HAIL 1 INCH. MYERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 2:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | El Paso | 61 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.