Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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 18:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 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
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 Jun 4, 10:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 10:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 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, 2 hours 2 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, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 63 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 |
| Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 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.