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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Goodland, KS

July 23, 1992Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1992, 10:42 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1992, 10:42 PM MDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1992, 11:15 PM MDT
In force
33 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, 4.7 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 1992-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 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 1992-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan56 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.