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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Goodland, KS

September 1, 1995Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 8:48 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 1995, 8:48 PM MDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 1995, 9:35 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Yuma County, CO, Dundy County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 103 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Sep 1, 7:52 PM MDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 7:52 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
752 PM MDT (852 PM CDT) FRI SEP 1 1995

GLD WSR 88-D AT 0140Z SHOWED ONLY ONE THUNDERSTORM...OVR NORTHERN
YUMA COUNTY.  THIS STORM IS WILTING IN ENVIRONMENT WITH 16C-17C
H70 TEMPERATURES AND LACK OF DAYTIME HEATING...BUT STORM-RELATIVE
INFLOW IS GREATER THAN 40 KNOTS.  IF THIS STORM HOLDS TOGETHER LONG
ENOUGH TO MAKE IT TO THE MORE WEAKLY CAPPED ENVIRONMENT TO THE
SOUTHEAST...IT COULD GROW EXPLOSIVELY ALONG WITH OTHER STORMS.
WITH HIGHER DEWPOINTS TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST PLUS WEAK H70
PROFILER-INDICATED SHORTWAVE TO THE WEST...WILL REMAIN IN A
WAIT-AND-SEE MODE.

CURRENET TEMPERATURE FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK.

GLD  061/095  31>    HLC  067/098  41
CBK  063/096  31    MCK  065/097  41
TRB  064/097  31    5C0  060/095  21

VJN/ENTWISTLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 9:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.