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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 1990Scott County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 6:47 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1990, 7:20 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Scott 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, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Scott, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1082 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 152347
SVRGLD
KSC171-160045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
647 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      NORTHERN SCOTT

AT 645 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 55 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF SCOTT LAKE
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY
RAIN..AND LIGHTNING.

JENNER

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, 3:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 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

Special weather statement, May 15, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

KSZ001-002-152245-

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

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SHERMAN COUNTY HAS ENDED.

AT 345PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GOODLAND TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST 35 MPH.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND AND
HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 325 PM MDT.

AS THE SHOWERS AND THUNDMERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS
GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS...AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE
EXPECTED.

MYERS

Special weather statement, May 15, 5:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

KSZ001-002-152315-

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

AT 420PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GOODLAND TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH.

SHOWERS AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
UNTIL 9PM MDT. NO FURTHER SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR NORTHWEST
KANSAS AT THIS TIME.

4 MILES SOUTH OF RULETON AT 326PM MDT HAIL DIME SIZE WAS REPORTED WITH
THE GROUND COVERED. THE HAIL KNOCKED OUT THE WINDOWS IN HIS PICK-UP.

MYERS

Local storm report, May 15, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
425 PM MDT TUE MAY 15 1990

STORM REPORT FOR MAY 15 1990 .....ALL TIMES ARE MDT.....

1522 MDT...1 INCH HAIL 1 MILE SOUTH RULETON.....SHERMAN COUNTY.
1526 MDT...1 INCH HAIL 4 MILES SOUTH RULETON COVERED THE GROUND.
           HAIL KNOCKED OUT THE WINDOWS OF A PICK-UP TRUCK.

MYERS

Special weather statement, May 15, 6:31 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

KSZ002-160030-

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

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WALLACE COUNTY HAS ENDED.

AT 530PM MDT RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WALLACE COUNTY
HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST LOGAN COUNTY. THIS IS 45 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. MOVEMENT CONTINUES EAST 25 MPH.

SHOWERS AND OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
UNTIL 9PM MDT.

MYERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 min
May 15, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	65 min
May 15, 3:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	59 min
May 15, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton, Phillips	66 min
May 15, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	63 min
May 15, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	25 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.