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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Goodland, KS

August 5, 1992Ness County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1992, 1:18 AM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1992, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1992, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ness County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1198 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
3.6

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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
Aug 4, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur68 min
Aug 4, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan62 min
Aug 4, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove65 min
Aug 4, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Aug 5, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane58 min
Aug 5, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLane65 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.