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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 13, 1990Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1990, 7:33 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1990, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rawlins 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 140033
SVRGLD
KSC153-140130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
733 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS
      RAWLINS

AT 725PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 30 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAT
OF GOODLAND KANSAS NEAR MC DONALD KANSAS MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR ATWOOD KANSAS BY 8PM CDT.

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne29 min
May 13, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham54 min
May 13, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRooks68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.