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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Goodland, KS

July 15, 1994Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 5:51 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1994, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1609 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1994-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
1609 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas63 min
Jul 15, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace56 min
Jul 15, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
Jul 15, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove67 min
Jul 15, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita28 min
Jul 15, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas67 min
Jul 15, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDElbert31 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.