Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 12:11 AM CST for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1995, 12:11 AM CST (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1995, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGLD 250613 RRA SVRGLD KSC193-250700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1111 PM MST (1211 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 ...EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY AT 1210 AM CST...RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN THOMAS COUNTY. SIMILAR STORMS PRODUCED GOLF-BALL SIZED HAIL EARLIER THIS MORNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JJK
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 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 8:56 PM CST, 3 hours 15 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, 12:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 54 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
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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.