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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Goodland, KS

July 20, 1995Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 5:44 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1995, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1995, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Jul 20, 2:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...DRAFT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
203 PM MDT (303 PM CDT) THU JUL 20 1995

MN PROBLEM WILL BE IF SHWRS WL DVLP NR SRN BNDRY LEFT BY
THIS MRNGS RAIN AND ALSO PCPN MVG E FRM CO FTHLS.  GUD
THERMAL GRAD NR TRIBUNE-LEOTI AREA AT NOON AND WITH DDC
RAOB RATHER MOIST/UNSTABLE...CONVCTN SEEMS PSBL WITH
ADDTIONAL HTG REACHG PAST CONVCTV TMP OF 79.  CO ZNES ALSO
MISSED OUT ON CLDS/PCPN THIS MRNG AND SHUD HEAT UP ENUF FOR
A FEW TSTMS.  ALSO CONVCTN TO THE W CUD MV INTO AREA THIS EVNG.
MST OF NW KS AND SW NE SHUD BE TOO STBL FOR DEEP CONVCTN.

FOR REST OF FCST...MDLS ABT THE SAME BUT PREFER AVN AS NGM
SEEMS TO HEAT UP LWR LVLS TOO FAST.  WL GO LWR THAN FWC GUID FOR
TEMPS FRI.

GLD  060/090  1-   HLC  062/091  1-
CBK  061/090  1-   MCK  061/090  1-
TRB  060/091  2-   5C0  060/090  2-

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace49 min
Jul 19, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan50 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.