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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Goodland, KS

August 25, 1994Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1994, 9:05 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1994, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1994, 10:05 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 1994-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 619 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 1994-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 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
619 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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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 25, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton, Phillips57 min
Aug 25, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan40 min
Aug 25, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove61 min
Aug 25, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDPhillips62 min
Aug 25, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton36 min
Aug 25, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Sheridan60 min
Aug 25, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham60 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.