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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Goodland, KS

May 22, 1995Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 11:17 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 1995, 11:17 PM MDT (05:17 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1995, 12:05 AM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Cheyenne County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 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 22, 9:15 AM MDT, 14 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 9:15 AM MDT, 14 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
915 AM MDT (1015 AM CDT) MON MAY 22 1995

AIR MASS REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE...ESPECIALLY AT MID LEVELS...AS
INDICATED BY FREQUENT DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS THE NORTHEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE CWA.  LATEST KGLD
RELFECTIVITIES SHOW PRECIPITATION BEGINNING TO EXIT WITH PASSAGE OF
A WEAK 500 MB VORT LOBE...PROGGED BY THE 00Z ETA AT 12 HOURS.

WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IN EXCESS OF 3 G/KG/HR EXPECTED
AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AS SHOWN BY LOCAL MESOSCALE ANALYSIS...FEEL
THAT ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP AT ANY TIME
OF THE DAY...ESPECIALLY LATER THIS MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON IN THE
PRESENCE OF SOME DIURNAL HEATING.  CURRENT FRONTAL POSITION
ACCORDING TO SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SEEMS TO BE JUST NORTH OF THE
NEBRASKA/KANSAS BORDER.

TEMPS AND POPS AS INDICATED IN CCF PORTION STILL SEEM REASONABLE.

GLD 068/045 57   HLC 072/052 57
CBK 069/048 57   MCK 067/049 67
TRB 074/049 57   5C0 067/044 67

VJN/ENTWISTLE

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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.