Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 8:27 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 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 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 Aug 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 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, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 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, 5 hours 15 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, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 33 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.