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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 1995Gove County, Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT for Gove County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gove County, KS, Sheridan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2288 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
2288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Jul 3, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan31 min
Jul 3, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan61 min
Jul 3, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove66 min
Jul 2, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDundy61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.