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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

June 18, 1991Sherman County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1991, 11:03 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1991, 11:03 PM MDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1991, 11:30 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sherman County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 1991-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 691 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 1991-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 18, 10:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman64 min
Jun 18, 11:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas69 min
Jun 19, 2:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman64 min
Jun 19, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDEllis, Trego64 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.