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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Goodland, KS

May 18, 1990Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1990, 9:12 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1990, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1260 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 19.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 190212
SVRGLD
KSC109-135-063-190315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
912 PM CDT FRI MAY 18 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      SOUTHEAST LOGAN...NORTHERN NESS...GOVE

AT 907PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 60 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR THE SCOTT COUNTY LAKE. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. THIS WARNING IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. TORNADOS REMAIN POSSIBLE FROM
THIS AND OTHER STORMS.
 GO IMMEDIATELY TO A REINFORCED SHELTER.

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.

FREIBURGER

CE CURSOR     AND STRIKE ENTER KEY

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 18, 5:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-182300

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
458 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH 266 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CDT FOR MOST OF WESTERN KANSAS...

AT 455PM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED OVER WESTERN KANSAS.
HOWEVER..RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN AN AREA 10 MILES
WIDE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATWOOD.
HEAVY RAINS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORM AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO
60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLA1ND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

FREIBURGER

Special weather statement, May 18, 5:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-190000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
555 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 1990

...TORNADO WATCH 266 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM CDT FOR MOST OF WESTERN KANSAS...

AT 550PM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED OVER NORTHWEST OF WESTCENTRAL
KANSAS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND..
10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ATWOOD.  OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND..JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF ATWOOD SOUTH
THROUGH EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY TO NEAR SCOTT CITY.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE
STRONGER STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

FREIBURGER

Special weather statement, May 18, 8:33 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-190000

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
730 PM MDT FRI MAY 18 1990

AT 730 PM MDT A DEEP LOW PRESSURE PASSING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WAS CAUSING
STRONG GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS.  WINDS GUSTING TO OVER 60 MPH RECORDED AT
GOODLAND AIRPORT DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES.  A FEW SHOWERS WERE INDICATED
BY RADAR OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AT 730 PM MDT.

FREIBURGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Ness	31 min
May 18, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	61 min
May 18, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Ness	63 min
May 18, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lane, Scott	63 min
May 18, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Ness, Trego	61 min
May 18, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Ellis, Ness, Rush	58 min
May 19, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rush	61 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.