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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS

May 15, 1995Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:12 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1995, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 15, 9:18 AM MDT, 6 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 9:18 AM MDT, 6 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 15, 10:30 AM MDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 3:59 PM MDT, 13 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
358 PM MDT (458 PM CDT) MON MAY 15 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS AND PORTIONS
OF EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO
UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT).

THE FOLLOWING KANSAS COUNTIES ARE UNDER THIS WATCH...CHEYENNE
RAWLINS...DECATUR...SHERIDAN...GRAHAM...SHERMAN...NORTON...THOMAS...
GOVE...WICHITA...GREELEY...WALLACE...AND LOGAN.

THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ARE UNDER THIS WATCH....EASTERN
CHEYENNE AND EASTERN KIT CARSON.

PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD REVIEW
TORNADO SAFETY RULES NOW.  BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF A WARNING
IS ISSUED OR A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE
CONTAINED UNDER WARNINGS...SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENTS...AND SHORT TERM
FORECASTS.

MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 5:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	47 min
May 15, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	62 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.