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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 1990Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 2:42 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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: May 15, 1990, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1990, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sherman County, KS

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
May 15, 3:26 PM MDT	Hail 1	Sherman, KS

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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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.

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, May 15, 2:08 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

KSZ001-002-152105-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
210 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 1990

AT 205PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN
NORTHEAST COLORADO 40 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND BETWEEN BURLINGTON AND
STRATTON AND EXTENDING NORTH TO THE WRAY AREA, AND SOUTH TO THE WILD
HORSE AREA.

MOVEMENT IS EAST 30MPH.

WITH THE PRESENT MOVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT THE STORMS WILL BE IN THE
NORTHWEST KANSAS AREA WEST OF JGOODLAND AND ST FRANCIS BY 3PM MDT.

MYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 1:59 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 min
May 15, 2:10 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
May 15, 2:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	59 min
May 15, 3:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton, Phillips	66 min
May 15, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	25 min
May 15, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Scott	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.