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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS

June 20, 1992El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1992, 4:20 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1992, 4:20 PM MDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1992, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 20, 4:56 PM MDTTornado F0El Paso, CO
Jun 20, 5:10 PM MDTHail 1El Paso, CO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-455 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 20, 11:42 AM MDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
KSZ001-002-004-005-007-008-201900-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
1140 AM MST SAT JUN 20 1992

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS:

CHEYENNE    RAWLINS     SCOTT         LANE         NESS       RUSH
SHERMAN     THOMAS      DECATUR       NORTON       PHILLIPS
WALLACE     LOGAN       SHERIDAN      GRAHAM       ROOKS
GREELEY     WICHITA     GOVE          TREGO        ELLIS

SYNOPSIS: LOTS OF MOISTURE IS PRESENT TODAY OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS.
OTHER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED.

DORSEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 4:07 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDEl Paso68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.