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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 5, 1995El Paso County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County El Paso County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 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 KCOS 052332
SVRCOS
COC041-060030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLORADO SPRINGS CO
532 PM MDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A
SVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM MDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO
 
   ...WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLORADO SPRINGS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN EL PASO COUNTY.
 
RADAR AND SPOTTTER REPORTS INDICATED ONE INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
IN THOSE AREAS.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 
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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 May 5, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 2:21 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
221 PM MDT (321 PM CDT) FRI MAY 5 1995

WSR-88D RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE CO COUNTIES...AND ANOTHER BATCH OF
PRECIPITATION NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. HOWEVER...LOW CLOUDS HAVE
REALLY TAKEN THEIR TOLL ON SURFACE HEATING. THUS...SIGNIFICANT
INSTABILITY NEVER REALLY OCCURRED. MID LEVEL DYNAMICS SHOULD
INCREASE OVER THE CWA TONIGHT...SO THINK HIGH POPS ARE IN ORDER
ESPECIALLY FOR EASTERN COLORADO. STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO
ADVECT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT...SO THINK MOS MINS
TONIGHT LOOK TOO COOL. SHOULD HAVE A RETURN OF LOW CLOUDS TONIGHT
GIVEN MOISTURE INFLUX AND UPSLOPE WINDS.

SATURDAY LOOKS INTERESTING AS WESTERN KANSAS GETS DRY SLOTTED AFTER
1ST VORTICITY MAXIMUM MOVES NORTH. IF THIS OCCURS...AND ASSOCIATED
LOWS CLOUDS ERODE...SURFACE HEATING AND INSTABILITY WILL BE MORE
PRONOUNCED THAN TODAY. A DRY LINE IS ALSO PROGGED TO MOVE INTO THE
AREA BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON PROVIDING A FOCUSING BOUNDARY. CAPES AND
HELICITIES ALL POINT TO MORE ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER DAY ACROSS THE
REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY AROUND THE HILL CITY/NORTON/
GOVE AREAS.

GLD 47/68 73  HLC 49/69 57
CBK 48/69 64  MCK 48/68 57
TRB 48/68 73  5C0 46/68 93

MENTZER

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.