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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 1995Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1995, 4:08 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1995, 4:08 PM MDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1995, 5:10 PM MDT
In force
62 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 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne50 min
Jul 19, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita46 min
Jul 19, 5:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace61 min
Jul 19, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson33 min

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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.