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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1990, 1:47 PM CDT for Trego County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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 21, 1990, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1990, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trego 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 21, 2:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Trego, 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGLD 211847
SVRGLD
KSC195-211945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
147 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
TREGO
AT 142 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF
SCOTT CITY KANSAS ALONG THE GOVE...TREGO COUNTYs LINE MOVING
EAST AT 20 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.
WORKMANWhat 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 21, 1:18 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
KSZ004-005-007-211915 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 115 PM CDT THU JUN 21 1990 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 115 PM CDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM NORTON TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTON NEAR LENORA TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCOTT CITY NEAR GOVE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTON...GRAHAM...TREGO AND GOVE COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM CDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR NEAR THE STR'ONGER THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ness | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rush | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 69 min |
| Jun 21, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ness, Trego | 58 min |
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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.