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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Goodland, KS

May 17, 1995Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 12:26 AM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 12:26 AM CDT (05:26 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 12:46 AM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 3022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.1

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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 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
746 PM MDT (846 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995

DISCUSSION:  GLD 88-D REFLECTIVITY DATA INDCS A MORE GEN AREA OF
SHWRS AND TSTMS APCHNG OUR CWA FM E CNTRL CO.  WOULD XPC A FEW SVR
TSTMS THIS EVE WITH THIS COMPLEX AS IT MOVES INTO XTRM ERN CO AND
SRN NW KS COUNTIES.  CHCS OF SVR STMS SHOULD DCR LTR THIS EVE AS
THE NOCTURNAL COOLING FACTOR BCMS A GREATER FACTOR.

GLD  49/55  78  HLC  53/58  78
CBK  51/56  78  MCK  50/55  78
TRB  51/58  78  5C0  47/52  67

VJN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 10:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

COZ092-KSZ016-027>029-041-042-170440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
936 PM MDT (1036 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 413 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT) WEDNESDAY MORNING.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGpING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR.  BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING
IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED
IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS.

TURNER

Special weather statement, May 17, 12:02 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Gove	64 min
May 16, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	66 min
May 16, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	48 min
May 16, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	61 min
May 16, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	43 min
May 16, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	64 min
May 16, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	39 min
May 16, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wichita	35 min
May 16, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	61 min
May 16, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	61 min
May 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	65 min
May 16, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.