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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Goodland, KS

July 19, 1995Cheyenne County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cheyenne County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 851 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.5

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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, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita46 min
Jul 19, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace61 min
Jul 19, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson62 min
Jul 19, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson33 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.