Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1995, 10:07 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 1995, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 1995, 11:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 020307 RRA SVRGLD KSC023-020410- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 907 PM MDT (1007 PM CDT) FRI SEP 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 PM MDT (1110 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS AT 1005 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAINT FRANCIS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 29 MPH. RADAR INDICATED WINDS STRONGER THAN 65 MPH IN THE VICINITY OF SAINT FRANCIS THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... SAINT FRANCIS NOW WHEELER BY 1020 PM CDT BIRD CITY BY 1038 PM CDT GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! ENTWISTLE
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, 8:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 8:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 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
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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.