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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Goodland, KS

July 2, 1998Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1998, 12:01 AM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1998, 12:01 AM MDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1998, 12:50 AM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1998-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1351 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 1998-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 8:32 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 8:32 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 12:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins49 min
Jul 2, 12:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur64 min
Jul 2, 12:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins50 min
Jul 2, 12:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
Jul 1, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne43 min
Jul 1, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne30 min
Jul 1, 11:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.