Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1995, 1:47 AM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1995, 1:47 AM CDT (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1995, 2:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 484 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 11, 9:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 19 min |
| May 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 12, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 33 min |
| May 12, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 12, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 46 min |
| May 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 47 min |
| May 12, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| May 12, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 min |
| May 12, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 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.