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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Goodland, KS

July 20, 1995Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 8:41 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 1995, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 8:29 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:29 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 8:08 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	64 min
Jul 20, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	48 min
Jul 20, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	49 min
Jul 20, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	38 min
Jul 21, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	42 min
Jul 20, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	42 min
Jul 20, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995 Every 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.