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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Goodland, KS

July 22, 1995Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1995, 9:39 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 1995, 9:39 PM MDT (03:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1995, 10:10 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kit Carson County, CO

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 803 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman45 min
Jul 23, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas36 min
Jul 23, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan46 min
Jul 23, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan62 min
Jul 22, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson43 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.