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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1990, 4:16 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1990, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1990, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks 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 183 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KGLD 142116
TORGLD
KSC163-142215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
416 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
ROOKS
AT 415 CDT A PUBLIC REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG THE ELLIS
TREGO COUNTY LINE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYS MOVING NORTHEAST
20 MPH. THIS STORM CENTER SHOULD MOVE INTO THE ROOKS COUNTY
AREA SOUTHWEST OF PLAINVILLE BY 430PM CDT.
FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. BASEMENTS OFFER BEST PROTECTION. SMALL
ROOMS NEAR THE CENTER OF HOMES AND BUILDING ARE ALSO FAIRLY SAFE.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES OFFER NO SHELTER..SO LEAVE THEN. EVEN A
DITCH OR LOW PLACE IS SAFER THEN A MOBILE HOME OR CAR.
MYERSWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-142045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. AT 235 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AT 50 MILES WIDE AREA FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 20 MILES EAST OF HAYS. STRONGEST STORMS WAS IN A 10 MILE WIDE AREA..FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR GRINNELL TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAKEENEY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS 12 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE IN EASTERN RUSH COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ..OUTLOOK FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVEL OP OVER WESTERN KANSAS WITH A FEW SPOTTY HEAVY ANOUNTS OF PRECIPITAION. OTHERWISE SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL BE LIGHT. OUT SIDE OF THE SHOWER AREAS..MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL INTO THE MID 70S BY 8 PM CDT. FREIBURGER.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-142045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 240 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. AT 240 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AT 50 MILES WIDE AREA FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND TO 20 MILES EAST OF HAYS. STRONGEST STORMS WAS IN A 10 MILE WIDE AREA..FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR GRINNELL TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAKEENEY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS 12 MILES EAST OF LA CROSSE IN EASTERN RUSH COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. ..OUTLOOK FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN KANSAS WITH A FEW SPOTTY HEAVY ANOUNTS OF PRECIPITAION. OTHERWISE SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL BE LIGHT. OUT SIDE OF THE SHOWER AREAS..MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL INTO THE MID 70S BY 8 PM CDT. FREIBURGER.
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:41 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-142145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 340 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990 AT 340 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN KANSAS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYS BETWEEN HILL CITY AND WAKEENEY MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND SCOTT CITY AND DIGHTON. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS INDICATED WITH THESE STORMS AT PRESENT. GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY. ..OUTLOOK FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS.. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN KANSAS WITH A FEW SPOTTY HEAVY ANOUNTS OF PRECIPITAION. OTfHERWISE SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL BE LIGHT. OUT SIDE OF THE SHOWER AREAS..MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL PREVAIL. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL INTO THE LOW 70S BY 8 PM CDT. MYERS
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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.