Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1990, 4:20 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1990, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1990, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 232120
SVRGLD
KSC179-232215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
420 PM CDT MON JUL 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF KANSAS
SHERIDAN
AT 415 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED IN NORTHWEST
SHERIDAN COUNTY 55 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND AND IS
MOVING TO THE SOTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY
OF LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
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.
JENNERWhat 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 23, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
KSZ001-004-232100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM CDT MON JUL 23 1990 ...ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS... AT 300 PM CDT AN ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR ATWOOD KANSAS. MOVEMENT WILL LIKELY BE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. PERSONS IN EASTERN RAWLINS AND WESTERN DECATUR COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UNTIL 400 PM CDT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR REINFORCED SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. WORKMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Trego | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Trego | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 59 min |
| Jul 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.