Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 9:52 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1995, 9:52 PM MDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1995, 10:14 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 21, 7:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 7:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 748 PM MDT (848 PM CDT) WED JUN 21 1995 RECOMMENDATIONS: NO CHANGES NEEDED IN ANY OF THE ZONES. DISCUSSION: LEE TROUGH AND DRYLINE COMPLEX OVER EAST COLORADO SHOWING SIGNS OF EASTWARD MOVEMENT. AM A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE CWA AS DIFFLUENCE ALOFT EDGES EASTWARD AND WINDS INCREASE AT 500 MB AND ABOVE IN ITS BACK SIDE. PROFILER DATA FROM PLATTEVILLE SHOWS BACKING WINDS TO 650 MB SINCE 20Z WITH AFOREMENTIONED INCREASED WIND VELOCITIES REACHING LOWER ELEVATIONS WITH TIME. RED WILLOW PROFILER NEAR MCCOOK SHOWS LOWEST GATES HAVE BACKED SINCE 20Z AND GRANADA PROFILER HINTS AT EXISTENCE OF SHORTWAVE AROUND 750 MB. AGREE WITH PREVIOUS FORECASTER REGARDING PREFERENCE FOR ETA AND ITS SPEED OF SURFACE FEATURES. GLD 61/87 33 HLC 65/92 33 CBK 63/88 33 MCK 66/89 32 TRB 60/89 33 5C0 58/86 33 ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
COZ090-091-KSZ001-002-013>015-027>029-041-042-NEZ079-080-220715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 713 PM MDT (813 PM CDT) WED JUN 21 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT (200 AM CDT) FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...EASTERN COLORADO...AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN KANSAS... CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN... WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA IN NEBRASKA... DUNDY AND HITCHCOCK IN COLORADO... YUMA AND EASTERN KIT CARSON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE 555 PM MDT (655 PM CDT) IN YUMA...CHEYENNE COLORADO...AND GREELEY COUNTIES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HAIL LARGER THAN A NICKEL...WINDS STRONGER THAN 58 MPH...OR BOTH. BLINDING RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OFTEN ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 7:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 6:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 7:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 7:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.