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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Goodland, KS

June 21, 1990Trego County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 2:00 PM CDTHail 1.5Trego, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 607 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

WORKMAN

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess49 min
Jun 21, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRush29 min
Jun 21, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas69 min
Jun 21, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess, Trego58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every 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.