Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1991, 6:43 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1991, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1991, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 222357 SVRGLD KSC153-230030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 557 PM MDT (657 PM CDT) WED MAY 22 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT (730 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHERN RAWLINS COUNTY AT 640PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND..NEAR ATWOOD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A CORRECTED WARNING...TIME WRONG ON EARLIER WARNINGS... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, May 22, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-221100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 402 AM MDT (502 AM CDT) WED MAY 22 1991 AT 455PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WAS FROM 10 MILES EAST OF GOODLAND TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OR JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF COLBY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND..5 MILES WEST OF RUSSELL SPRINGS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. FREIBURGER
Special weather statement, May 22, 6:22 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-221230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 521 AM MDT (621 AM CDT) WED MAY 22 1991 AT 520PM MDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WAS FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF GOODLAND TO 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOODLAND NEAR ATWOOD. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 35 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND JUST TO THE SOUTH OF SHARON SPRINGS. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVE0R NORTHEAST COLORADO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND BETWEEN BURLINGTON AND CHEYENNE WELLS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. FREIBURGER
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.