Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Goodland, KS
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 1:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 3:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 60 min |
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.