Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 4:50 PM MDT for El Paso County, Colorado. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County El Paso County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 2:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:48 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-170350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 447 PM MDT (547 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY AND WICHITA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) FOR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR DOES NOT YET SHOW ANY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA NOT REACHING SEVERE LIMITS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 46 min |
| May 15, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 64 min |
Nearby
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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.