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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 1995, 1:13 AM CST for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 1995, 1:13 AM CST (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 1995, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 695 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 Mar 25, 8:56 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:56 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 756 PM MST (856 PM CST) SAT MAR 25 1995 RECOMMENDATIONS... CO...OK KS AND NE WRN TIER...PC WITH LOWS MID 30S. WINDS BCMG NORTH 10-20 WITH G30. REST OF KS AND NE...MSTLY CLDY WITH 40 PER TRW...LOWS 40-45...AND WINDS BCMG E 10-20 G30. DISCUSSION: FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHETHER CONTINUED CHC OF THUNDER TNGT. CONVECTION THAT FIRED TO N OF AREA NOW MOVING AWAY AND CERTAINLY STARTING TO LOSE EFFECT OF DAYTIME HEATING. THINK WE CAN FORGET ABOUT CONVECTION REST OF TNGT IN CO AND WRN TIER OF KS AND NE CNTIES WHERE DRY LINE HAS PUSHED THROUGH AND CLEANED OUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THIS VERY DRY AIR SHOULD ALSO HELP HOLD OFF ANY DVLPG UPSLOPE PCPN TIL 2ND PD. IN OUR MORE ERN CNTIES...LOCAL MESO ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SHOW WELL DEVELOPED THETA-E RIDGE. SAT PIX SHOWS PERTURBATION MOVING UP FROM SW IN THIS DIRECTION. ALSO WITH COLD FRNT SFC ANALYSIS NOW SHWS DVLPG OVR SE WY AND NE CO COMING DWN LATE TNGT TO INTERACT WITH DRY LINE...WOULD MAINTAIN CHC POPS TO OUR E. CURRENT TEMPS LOOK ABT ON TRACK XCP WOULD DROP A CAT IN WRN KS AND NE FOR DRYLINE. SFC LOW SEEMS TO BE DVLPG ALMOST EXACTLY WHERE ALL MODELS SAY AND WOULD ADJUST WINDS ACCORDING ALLOWING FOR CROSS-ISOBARIC NIGHT EFFECTS. GLD 35/44 27 HLC 45/53 47 CBK 40/46 47 MCK 42/46 47 TRB 37/45 27 5C0 34/42 26 KWIATKOWSKI
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 8:03 PM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Mar 25, 8:56 PM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
755 PM MST (855 PM CST) SAT MAR 25 1995
TIME (MST) ...CITY LOCATION... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION.
2:05 PM S.O WICHITA CO. OVER KS FUNNEL CLOUD PASTED OVER
LEOTI LEOTI.
2:20 PM S.O. WICHITA CO. 5 TO 10 KS TORNADO 5 TO 10 MILES NE
MILES NE LEOTI. OF LEOTI.
3:34 PM OBSERVER LEOTI. WICHITA KS 0.75 SIZE HAIL
CO.
5:15 PM OBSERVER 6N AND 2E LEOTI KS 0.75 HAIL.
WICHITA CO.
BOYLELocal storm report, Mar 26, 12:18 AM CST, 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 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.