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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Goodland, KS

July 11, 1990El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1990, 4:31 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 1990, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 1990, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

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

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 11, 3:46 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

KSZ002-005-112240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
445 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 1990

AT 440 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME ISOLATED HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER
WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.   THE STORMS WERE 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND
KANSAS NEAR RUSSELL SPRINGS AND 40 MILES WEST OF HAYS KANSAS
NEAR THE CEDAR BUFFS LAKE.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH.

IT THESE CONTINUE THIER MOVEMENT THEY SHOULD MOVE TO ABOUT SCOTT CITY
NESS CITY LINE BY ABOUT 545 PM CDT THIS EVENING.

BOYLE

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:16 PM MDT, 15 minutes before

KSZ001-002-005-112210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
515 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #616 IS IN EFFECT FOR WALLACE..GREELEY
AND WICHITA COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

AT 510 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME ISOLATED HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER
WEST CENTRAL KANSAS.   THE STORMS WERE 50 TO 60 MILES NORTHWEST..NORTH
AND NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS.

ONE STORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRIBUNE COULD HAVE SOME SMALL HAIL.
THE OTHER STORMS WERE NORTH OF SCOTT CITY AND NESS CITY.  ALL THE
STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

RESIDENTS OF SCOTT CITY AND NESS CITY CAN EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS IN
THEIR VICINITIES UNTIL AROUND 545 PM CDT THIS EVENING.
BOYLE

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:31 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	63 min
Jul 11, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	El Paso	61 min
Jul 11, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Elbert	61 min
Jul 11, 4:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Lincoln	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.