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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Goodland, KS

June 7, 1990Gove County, Scott County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 4:02 AM CDT for Gove County, Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 7, 1990, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1990, 4:50 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, 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
Jun 7, 4:45 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Gove, 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 2618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 070902
SVRGLD
KSC171-063-071000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
402 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      NORTHERN SCOTT...GOVE

AT 400 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY TO 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTT CITY.
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 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.

FREIBURGER

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, Jun 7, 2:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-070815-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
205 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 405 IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR MOST
OF NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 100 AM CDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER NORTHWEST OR
WESTCENTRAL KANSAS..HOWEVER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST
KANSAS OUT OF EASTERN COLORADO.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WAS 45 MILES SOUTH
OF GOODLAND..JUST SOUTH OF WESKAN AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOODLAND
ALONG THE KANSAS/COLORADO BORDER.

HEAVY RAINS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORM
AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 20 MPH.

FREIBURGER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	63 min
Jun 7, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	55 min
Jun 7, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	50 min
Jun 7, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	62 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.