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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Goodland, KS

July 23, 1995Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 227 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1995-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 106 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
227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-281 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman45 min
Jul 23, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan46 min
Jul 23, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan62 min
Jul 22, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson43 min
Jul 22, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson31 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.