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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Goodland, KS

June 3, 1998Decatur County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 4:39 AM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 3, 1998, 4:39 AM CDT (09:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1998, 5:15 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Decatur County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 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.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
230 AM MDT (330 AM CDT) WED JUN 3 1998

...FORECAST PROBLEMS WILL BE CHC OF PCPN AND TEMPS THROUGH THE
PERIOD...

NOT A LOT TIME THIS MORNG WITH SVR WX OVR WRN CWA ATTM. BASED ON
INITIAL ANALYSIS AND CURRENT TRENDS...LIKE THE NGM THE BEST FOR
FEATURES 700 MB AND ABV ALONG WITH PCPN. NGM IS ONLY MDL SHOWG
CURRENT PCPN ATTM. HWVR IN THIS SHALLOW COOL AMS ALG WITH SFC ANAL
AND TRENDS...ETA IS DOING BETTER AT THE LOW LVLS.

CURRENT PCPN BEING CAUSED BY 700 MB VORT MAX...MAYBE A RRQ ON JET...
AND INTERACTION WITH FRONT. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD RACE ACROSS THE CWA
THIS MRNG FOLLOWED BY STRATIFORM PCPN. DYNAMICS IMPROVE DURG THE
NIGHT AND LINGER INTO THU. THEREFORE WILL KEEP CHC TO LIKELY POPS
THROUGH PERIOD.

BASED ON SHALLOW COOL AMS AND TEMPS ALREADY COOLER THAN WHAT NGM IS
ADVERTISING...WL TEND TO GO WITH A NARROW DIURNAL RANGE WITH FCST
BLO NGM MOS MAXES AND NR TO SLIGHTLY BLO NGM MOS MINS.

.GLD...NONE

BULLER

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	49 min
Jun 3, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	45 min
Jun 3, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	52 min
Jun 3, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998 Every 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.