Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1990, 6:58 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1990, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 682 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, May 11, 4:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 435 PM CDT FRI MAY 11 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 213 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS..EAST OF A LINE FROM ATWOOD TO LEOTI... NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED OVER NORTHWEST OR WESTCENTRAL KANSAS AT 430PM CDT. HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR WINONA INm NORTHWEST LOGAN COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH..AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. FREIBURGER
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
KSZ001-002-112330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 540 PM CDT FRI MAY 11 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 213 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR MOST OF WESTERN KANSAS... AT 535 PM CDT..RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY NORTH THRU THOMAS COUNTY INTO SOUTHWEST RAWLINS COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A VERY STRONG STORM WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST RAWLINS COUNTY THAT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. PERSONS IN RAWLINS COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS STORM AND READY TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. DORSEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 58 min |
| May 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Scott | 36 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.