Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1995, 10:27 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1995, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1995, 10:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 884 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 21, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 750 PM MDT (850 PM CDT) SUN MAY 21 1995 ...GETTING BUSY HERE ATTM... BIG THUNDERSTORM NOW MOVING VERY CLOSE TO CWA ALONG AXIS OF MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. THIS STORM TO CONTINUE PUSHING SOUTHEAST INTO THIS AREA OF MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AND SHOULD KEEP US BUSY FOR NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. CAN'T SEE ANYTHING TO ARGUE WITH ON CURRENT FORECASTS...AND WILL THEREFORE RECOMMEND NO CHANGES. GLD 53/6h8 45 HLC 57/74 45 CBK 54/68 45 MCK 55/70 46 TRB 54/70 45 5C0 53/66 45 TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 61 min |
| May 21, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| May 21, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 19 min |
| May 22, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 49 min |
| May 22, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 61 min |
| May 22, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 36 min |
| May 22, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 50 min |
| May 22, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 39 min |
| May 22, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 65 min |
| May 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 47 min |
| May 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 50 min |
| May 22, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 38 min |
| May 22, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 31 min |
| May 22, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 25 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.