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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 1990Norton County, Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 4:09 AM CDT for Norton County, Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1990, 4:09 AM CDT (09:09 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1990, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Norton County, KS, Phillips 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
334 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
May 15, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne61 min
May 15, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton65 min
May 15, 3:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan59 min
May 15, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman63 min
May 15, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace25 min
May 15, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDScott33 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.