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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Goodland, KS

June 4, 1995Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1995, 2:05 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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.

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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KGLD 041804 RRA
SVRGLD
KSC193-041905-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1202 PM MDT (102 PM CDT) SUN JUN 4 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 105 PM MDT (205 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST KANSAS

   ...THOMAS COUNTY
 
AT 101 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLBY OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF
BREWSTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 14 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

TURNER

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 Jun 4, 10:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 10:16 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
916 AM MDT (1016 AM CDT) SUN JUN 4 1995

DISCUSSION...MAIN QUESTION IF AND WHEN PCPN TO RETURN THIS AFTN.

ON THE ONE HAND...PCPN OVR AREA CONTS TO SLOWLY TAPER
OFF...CONSISTENT WITH SHORT WAVE THAT CAUSED LAST NGTS STUFF MOVG
AWAY. DDC 12Z RAOB SHOWED SOME VEERING AROUND 700 WHICH DOVETAILS
WITH CSC CHART SHOWING CAPPING INCRG FROM S.

ON THE OTR HAND DDC ALREADY HAD LIFTED INDEX -3 AT 12Z AND CONVECTIVE
TEMP APROX 25 DEG CENT...WHICH SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM TO MAKE
CONSIDERING WHERE THEY ARE NOW AND IF CAP CUTS BACK CLD FORMATION
FOR A WHILE. ALSO SEEMS TO BE LTL IMPULSE NOW OVR NRN NEW MEXICO TO
ARRIVE OVR SRN PART OUR AREA BY EVENING ACCORDING TO SAT. ALL THINGS
CONSIDERING...WOULD AT TAKE POPS UP CLOSE TO GUIDANCE FOR TDY
IN KS...BUT WOULD CUT THEM A LTL CO AND NE SINCE PCPN LKLY SCT TIL
BTR DYNAMICS COME IN TNGT AS PER ETA MODEL.

TEMPS TODAY LOOK ABT RIGHT CONSIDERING CAP TO INTERFERRE WITH ONSET
OF CLOUDS...BUT NOT BLOCK IT AS PER PREV PARA.

KWIATKOWSKI/TURNER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:53 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-050600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1052 AM MDT (1152 AM CDT) SUN JUN 4 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

CHEYENNE CO   CHEYENNE KS   DECATUR KS     DUNDY NE        GOVE KS
GRAHAM KS     GREELEY KS    HITCHCOCK NE   KIT CARSON CO   LOGAN KS
NORTON KS     RAWLINS KS    RED WILLOW NE  SHERIDAN KS     SHERMAN KS
THOMAS KS     WALLACE KS    WICHITA KS     YUMA CO

SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN
U.S. WILL COMBINE WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE
THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS
MAY EXCEED SEVERE LEVELS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

TURNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	65 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	38 min
Jun 4, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	43 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.