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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Goodland, KS

March 26, 1995Graham County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 695 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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

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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.

BOYLE
Local storm report, Mar 26, 12:18 AM CST, 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 10:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman32 min
Mar 25, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne31 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.