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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Goodland, KS

July 10, 1990Gove County, Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1990, 3:33 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1990, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1990, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Logan 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 1990-07-10Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 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 102033
SVRGLD
KSC109-063-102130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
333 PM CDT TUE JUL 10 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      EASTERN LOGAN...GOVE

AT 330 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 50 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND IN SOUTHEAST LOGAN COUNTY AND ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 70 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND JUST NORTH
OF GOVE KANSAS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NEARLY STATIONARY OR
MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REQINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY
RAIN..AND LIGHTNING.

JENNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Trego56 min
Jul 10, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDScott64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.