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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Goodland, KS

August 31, 1995Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 8:29 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1995, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1995, 9:03 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 1995-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1211 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
1211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.3

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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
Aug 31, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan20 min
Aug 31, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove49 min
Sep 1, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma48 min
Sep 1, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma46 min

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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.