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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1990, 5:58 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 22, 1990, 5:58 PM MDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1990, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 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 22, 6:08 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Sherman, KS | |
| May 22, 6:40 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KGLD 222358
SVRGLD
KSC181-230045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
558 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS
EASTERN SHERMAN
AT 550 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES
NORTHEAST TO 10 MILES EAST OF GOODLAND KANSAS MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.
LARGE HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS OR LIKLEY WITH THESE STORMS
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.
BOYLE
3What 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 22, 4:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
KSZ001-002-222315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 420 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 1990 .....RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 410 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHT RAIN WERE ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND KANSAS OR JUST WEST OF ST FRANCIS. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH NO SEVERE WEATHER gWAS INDICATED AT THIS TIME. BOYLE
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:09 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ001-002-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 508 PM MDT TUE MAY 22 1990 AT 505 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINS WERE ABOUT 30 MILES EAST TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. A STRONG STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND AND MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL. BOYLE
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.