Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-060500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1134 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE ROCKIES WILL ALLOW DRY AND STABLE AIR TO FILTER INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1137 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABLITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1137 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABLITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:39 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard, Sherman | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard, Sherman | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Nuckolls, Webster | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Thayer | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 64 min |
| Jul 4, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.