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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS

June 23, 1995Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:37 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 4:37 PM MDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 5:40 PM MDT
In force
63 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 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 232238 RRA
SVRGLD
COC125-232340-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
437 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM MDT (640 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST COLORADO

   ...NORTHERN AND  CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY
 
AT 436 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES WEST OF WRAY OR 3 MILES EAST OF YUMA MOVING
SOUTH AT 18 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

ENTWISTLE

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 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
216 PM MDT (316 PM CDT) FRI JUN 23 1995

DISCUSSION:  BELIEVE ONCE AGN...ETA IS MODEL OF CHOICE GVN ITS PAST
GD PERFORMANCE AND THAT SFC PRESSURES ARE CURRENTLY HIER THAN WHAT
WAS PROGGED BY THE 6HR MSL PRESS MAP FM THIS MORNINGS RUN.

GVN THAT THE ETA BUILDS THE SFC HI A LTL MORE STRONGLY INTO THE
CWA...FEEL UPSLP WILL BE WKER THAN INDCD BY THE NGM ANF FWC GUIDANCE
THRU PD 2.  SUBSEQUENTLY...FEEL WE CAN TREND SLIGHTLY TWD FAN POPS
BY SUBTRACTING 10 PCT OFF POPS FM LAST FCST AT MOST PLACES.  THIS
RCMD IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE ETA AND NGMS PLACEMENT OF THE VORT MAX
FM WRN CO S OF THE CWA BY SAT MORNING.

OTRW...RCMDED TEMPS IN LN WITH FWC GUIDANCE...WHICH LOOKS RSNBLE
BASED O THE EXPECTATION OF SOME CLDCVR LINGERING THRU BOTH PERIODS.

GLD 54/74 43  HLC 58/78 42
CBK 56/76 43  MCK 57/79 31
TRB 56/78 43  5C0 53/73 53

VJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 1:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson54 min
Jun 23, 1:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 min
Jun 23, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
Jun 23, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma60 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.