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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS

May 28, 1991Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1991, 6:27 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1991, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1991, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1991-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 968 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1991-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
968 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1264 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.1

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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
May 28, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas62 min
May 29, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis, Rush66 min
May 29, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNess55 min

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.