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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS

May 12, 1995Wichita County, Kansas

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman19 min
May 12, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas32 min
May 12, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas33 min
May 12, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas32 min
May 12, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan47 min
May 12, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan46 min
May 12, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham47 min
May 12, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
May 12, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham51 min
May 12, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every 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.