Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 6:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 052230 SVRGLD KSC203-052335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 430 PM MDT (530 PM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 PM MDT (635 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WICHITA COUNTY AT 530 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEOTI OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SELKIRK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... SELKIRK BY 543 PM CDT LEOTI BY 548 PM CDT MARIENTHAL BY 603 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! LUCAS
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 Aug 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 218 PM MDT (318 PM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 DISCUSSION...BIG CHALLENGE PROSPECTS FOR TRW/SEVERE WX TNGT. DID TIME-HEIGHT CROSS SECTION OF VORT ADVECTION OVER AREA. NGM STRUCTURE OF INCOMING WAVE MUCH CLOSER TO WHAT SAT PIX SHOWS THAN ETA...SO NGM MODEL OF CHOICE TDY. NGM HAS WAVE PASSING E OF AREA BY 00Z...WHICH WIND PROFILERS ALSO SUPPORT. CONSIDERING VERY HIGH LOW LVL DEWPOINTS...AND ESTIMATED AFTN CAPES OF APROX 3500...LOOK FOR SCT TRW...SOME PSBLY SVR...AS WV PASSES. PCPN CUTTING OFF QUICKLY TOWARDS SUNDOWN AND MOS POPS LOOK GOOD FOR ACTUAL OVERNIGHT PERIOD. AFTN ERLY TNGT ALL MODELS CONCUR WITH BIG RDG BUILDING OVR US AND HOT DRY PERIOD. HOWEVER FWC TEMPS MAY BE TOO AGRESSIVE WITH WARMING...AS HAS HAPPENED WITH OTHER HOT SPELLS THIS YEAR. KWIATKOWSKI
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 11:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-060600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1041 AM MDT (1141 AM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SYNOPSIS: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING IN FROM THE WEST AND A SUPPLY OF WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR FROM THE EAST WILL WORK TOGETHER TO STRENGTHEN THE STORMS. SOME STORRMS ARE LIKELY TO BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA SERVED BY THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT GOODLAND. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. KWIATKOWSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
NEZ079>081-051955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1254 PM MDT (154 PM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 905 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT (7 PM CDT) FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA UNTIL 6 PM MDT (7 PM CDT) THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1250 PM MDT (150 PM CDT) NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED IN THESE COUNTIES...BUT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES OUT OF NORTHEAST COLORADO AND EASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE REGION WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF J55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. BOYLE
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
KSZ003-004-015-016-029-052110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 205 PM MDT (305 PM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THEM COULD BE SEVERE. REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND HAVE A PLACE OF SHELTER IN MIND IN CASE CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ003-004-015-016-029-052110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 205 PM MDT (305 PM CDT) SAT AUG 5 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR DECATUR...GOVE...GRAHAM...NORTON...AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THEM COULD BE SEVERE. REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND HAVE A PLACE OF SHELTER IN MIND IN CASE CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING. KWIATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 29 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.