Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1990, 5:42 PM MDT for Elbert County, El Paso County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties El Paso County, CO, Elbert County, CO, Lincoln 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, 5:50 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | El Paso, CO | |
| Jul 27, 5:51 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Lincoln, CO | |
| Jul 27, 5:53 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Elbert, CO | |
| Jul 27, 6:10 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Elbert, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCOS 272342
SVRCOS
COC073-041-039-280045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
542 PM MDT FRI JUL 27 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF COLORADO
NORTHERN LINCOLN...EL PASO...ELBERT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BETWEEN THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY
AND BLACK FOREST OVER NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...10 MILES SOUTH OF
KIOWA AND 10 MILES WEST OF LIMON IN ELBERT COUNTY COLORADO. THE
PUBLIC REPORTED HAIL TO 1 INCH WITH THESE STORMS AS WELL AS LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH.
THE STORM THAT WAS 10 MILES WEST OF LIMON WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO
LIMON IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORM BETWEEN THE AIR FORCE
ACADEMY AND BLACK FOREST WILL MOVE THROUGH THE BLACK FOREST AND
INTO PEYTON IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. ANOTHER STORM WAS IN EXTREME
NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LIMON.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
A PLACE OF YSAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED.
CROWLEYWhat 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, 5 hours 38 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, 5 hours 34 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, 5 hours 2 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, 4 hours 55 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, 4 hours 53 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, 3 hours 50 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 27, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | El Paso | 69 min |
| Jul 27, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Elbert | 69 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.