Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1990, 4:36 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 69 min. 4 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
- Jul 27, 1990, 4:36 PM MDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 4:46 PM MDT | Hail 1 | El Paso, CO | |
| Jul 27, 4:55 PM MDT | Hail 1 | El Paso, CO | |
| Jul 27, 5:20 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | El Paso, CO | |
| Jul 27, 5:50 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, 10.6 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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, Jul 27, 12:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-270915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN BUILDING OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... A 1255 PM CDT RADAR INDICATE A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EATHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND OR ABOLUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OBERLIN SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE THOMAS...SHERIDAN COUNTY LINE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHERS SHOWERS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN SHARON SPRINGS AND WINONA. THESE WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. JENNER
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:08 PM MDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-270915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LINE 5 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN BUILDING OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... A 1255 PM CDT RADAR INDICATE A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EATHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OBERLIN...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE THOMAS...SHERIDAN COUNTY LINE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHERS SHOWERS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN SHARON SPRINGS AND WINONA. THESE WERE ALSO MOVING TO TH$E NORTHEAST. JENNER
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-271915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO LINE 5 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 100 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN BUILDING OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... A 1255 PM CDT RADAR INDICATE A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EATHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OBERLIN...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE THOMAS...SHERIDAN COUNTY LINE. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. OTHERS SHOWERS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN SHARON SPRINGS AND WINONA. THESE WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. JENNER
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:47 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 145 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 140 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE F
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 12:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 145 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 140 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 70 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND JUST EAST OF DRESDEN ...EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND JUST NORTH OF LEOTI. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF GRINNELL AND ONE 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOXIE. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF GOODLAND TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND. THESE SHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. JENNER
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:52 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-272115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 250 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 ..SHOWERS AND LIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS.. AT 250 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES WIDE..FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTON..TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING FROM THE SHOWER ACTIVITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT FOR THE GOODLAND WEATHER OFFICE UNTIL THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFY. FREIBURGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 69 min |
| Jul 27, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert, El Paso, Lincoln | 63 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.