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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Goodland, KS

June 22, 1991Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1991, 6:09 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1991, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1991, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 144 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace66 min
Jun 22, 10:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert37 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.