Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1990, 6:13 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1990, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1990, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGLD 200013
SVRGLD
KSC181-200115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
613 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS
SHERMAN
AT 712 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EASTERN COLORADO..30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND .
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 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.
FREIBURGERWhat 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 19, 5:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KSZ004-005-007-008-200015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 600 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 502 IN EFFECT TIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS..EAST OF A LINE FROM OBERLIN TO DIGHTON... AT 600 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY NEAR THE SCOTT..GOVE COUNTY BORDER SOUTH ACROSS SCOTT CITY TO NEAR GARDEN CITY. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST OF SCOTT CITY AND ALONG THE SCOTT..FINNEY COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF SCOTT CITY. THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. FREIBURGER
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:05 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
KSZ004-005-007-008-200115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 700 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 502 IN EFFECT TIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS..EAST OF A LINE FROM OBERLIN TO DIGHTON... AT 700 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WAS 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYS NEAR NESS CITY SOUTHWEST INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF NESS COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDER STORMS WAS 50 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND FROM JUST WEST OF LEOTI..TO WEST OF TRIBUNE ALONG THE KANSAS..COLORADO BORDER. THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ALONG INDICATED OVER EASTERN COLO RADO..35 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND..EAST STRATON COLORADO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH..AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY NEAR KANORADO AROUND 800 PM CDT.. FREIBURGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lane, Ness | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rush | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 9:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 9:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lane | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 10:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ness | 44 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.