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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 1995Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 1:03 AM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 1:03 AM MDT (07:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 1:57 AM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 734 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 22, 7:39 PM MDT, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:39 PM MDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan63 min
Jun 22, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas46 min
Jun 22, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita39 min
Jun 22, 8:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan33 min
Jun 23, 1:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 min
Jun 23, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
Jun 23, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma63 min
Jun 23, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma60 min
Jun 22, 8:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 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.