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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Goodland, KS

July 17, 1995Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 4:54 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1995, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1995, 5:40 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 17, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
145 PM MDT (245 PM CDT) MON JUL 17 1995

DISCUSSION...MAIN QUESTION CHC OF TRW THRU PD.

LOOKS PRETTY HIGH TO ME...ESPECIALLY FOR TNGT. CELLS ALREADY POPPING
UP WHEREVER THERE IS A BOUNDARY. BETTER ORGANIZED STUFF NRN NEBRASKA
AND COL NOW HEADING THIS WAY...AND STUFF OVR SERN COL ALSO HEADED
IN THIS DIRECTION. WITH WV CURVE CONSIDERING TO SHOW TROPICAL PLUME
EQUIPPED WITH WEAK IMPULSES OVER AREA AND US YET TO HIT MAXIMUM
HEATING...SOMETIME THIS AFTN OR EVE MOST PLACES SHOULD GET
MEASURABLE. HEAVY RAIN PSBL AS PER HISTORY OF STORMS UNDER TROPICAL
MOISTURE.

OTRW CLOSE TO GUIDANCE WHICH LOOKS REASONABLE IN WHATS BASICALLY A
PERSISTENCE PATTERN.

KWIATKOWSKI

FXCA22TJSJ0

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 11:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-180600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1029 AM MDT (1129 AM CDT) MON JUL 17 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

CHEYENNE CO   CHEYENNE KS   DECATUR KS     DUNDY NE        GOVE KS
GRAHAM KS     GREELEY KS    HITCHCOCK NE   KIT CARSON CO   LOGAN KS
NORTON KS     RAWLINS KS    RED WILLOW NE  SHERIDAN KS     SHERMAN KS
THOMAS KS     WALLACE KS    WICHITA KS     YUMA CO

SYNOPSIS:

THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS UNSTABLE TODAY. AS A RESULT...SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF
THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT EXPECTED BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

KWIATKOWSKI

WWUS35KAKQ0

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 11:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-180600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1029 AM MDT (1129 AM CDT) MON JUL 17 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

CHEYENNE CO   CHEYENNE KS   DECATUR KS     DUNDY NE        GOVE KS
GRAHAM KS     GREELEY KS    HITCHCOCK NE   KIT CARSON CO   LOGAN KS
NORTON KS     RAWLINS KS    RED WILLOW NE  SHERIDAN KS     SHERMAN KS
THOMAS KS     WALLACE KS    WICHITA KS     YUMA CO

SYNOPSIS:

THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS UNSTABLE TODAY. AS A RESULT...SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF
THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT EXPECTED BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

KWIATKOWSKI

WWUS35KAKQ0

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	31 min
Jul 17, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	45 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 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.