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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Goodland, KS

July 9, 1990Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1990, 4:05 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1990, 4:05 PM MDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1990, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1990-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1990-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert65 min
Jul 9, 4:12 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDEl Paso63 min
Jul 9, 4:15 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDElbert, Lincoln45 min
Jul 9, 5:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDEl Paso2 hr

Nearby

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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.