Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 6:12 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 6:12 PM MDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 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 00:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 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, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 21 min |
| Jun 23, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 50 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.