Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS

March 25, 1995Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 12:06 AM CST for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1995, 12:06 AM CST (06:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1995, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sheridan County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 446 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KGLD 250608 RRA
SVRGLD
KSC179-250700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1106 PM MST (1206 AM CST) FRI MAR 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT MST (100 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 1205 AM CST AN OBSERVER IN MENLO...OR 20 MILES EAST OF
COLBY...REPORTED GOLF-BALL SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH INTO SHERIDAN COUNTY.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.
 
 
JJK
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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 Mar 24, 8:56 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 8:56 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
756 PM MST (856 PM CST) FRI MAR 24 1995

RECOMMENDATIONS...

DISCUSSION: FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WHETHER CONTINUED CHC OF THUNDER
TNGT.

CONVECTION THAT FIRED TO N OF AREA NOT DVLPG MUCH AND CERTAINLY
STARTING TO LOSE EFFECT OF DAYTIME HEATING. THINK WE CAN FORGET ABOUT
CONVECTION REST OF TNGT IN CO AND WRN TIER OF KS CNTIES WHERE
DRY LINE HAS PUSHED THROUGH AND CLEANED OUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. THIS
VERY DRY AIR SHOULD ALSO HELP HOLD OFF ANY DVLPG UPSLOPE PCPN TIL 2ND
PD.

IN OUR MORE ERN CNTIES...LOCAL MESO ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SHOW WELL
DEVELOPED THETA-E RIDGE. SAT PIX SHOWS PERTURBATION MOVING UP FROM SW
IN THIS DIRECTION. ALSO WITH COLD FRNT SFC ANALYSIS NOW SHWS DVLPG OVR
SE WY AND NE CO COMING DWN LATE TNGT TO INTERACT WITH DRY LINE...WOULD
MAINTAIN CHC POPS TO OUR E.

CURRENT TEMPS LOOK ABT ON TRACK XCP WOULD DROP A CAT IN WRN KS AND NE
FOR DRYLINE. SFC LOW SEEMS TO BE DVLPG ALMOST EXACTLY WHERE ALL
MODELS SAY AND WOULD ADJUST WINDS ACCORDING ALLOWING FOR CROSS-ISOBARIC
NIGHT EFFECTS.

KWIATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 12:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	49 min
Mar 25, 12:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	53 min
Mar 25, 1:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	55 min
Mar 25, 1:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	60 min
Mar 25, 3:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	37 min
Mar 25, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wichita	55 min
Mar 25, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995 Every 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.