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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Goodland, KS

May 22, 1990Sherman County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 6:08 PM MDTHail 0.75Sherman, KS
May 22, 6:40 PM MDTHail 0.75Sherman, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1990-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1990-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
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
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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 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.