Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 6:21 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 7:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 20, 2:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 17 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- HULL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 64 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.