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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Goodland, KS

August 22, 1990Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1990, 4:05 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1990, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1990, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 53 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson65 min
Aug 22, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne35 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.