Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 6:21 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 7:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 210022 RRA SVRGLD COC125-KSC181-210125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 621 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM MDT (825 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ...SOUTHEASTERN YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SHERMAN COUNTY AT 619 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES NORTH OF BURLINGTON OR 1 MILE EAST OF BONNY RESERVOIR MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... HALE BY 622 PM MDT RULETON BY 654 PM MDT THE NSI PLANT BY 658 PM MDT GOODLAND BY 703 PM MDT EDSON BY 716 PM MDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! BULLER
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
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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.