Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 4:35 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1995, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1995, 5:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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, 2:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 224 PM MDT (324 PM CDT) SUN JUN 4 1995 DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE CWA...WILL GO WITH CURRENT FORECASTS. TURNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:53 AM MDT, 5 hours 42 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
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
COZ091-092-042115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 210 PM MDT...WHILE NO PRECIPITATION WAS REPORTED OVER CHEYENNE AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 541 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS. TURNER
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COZ091-092-042115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 210 PM MDT...WHILE NO PRECIPITATION WAS REPORTED OVER CHEYENNE AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 541 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THI S EVENING IN THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. FURTHER INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION WILL BE CONTAINED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS. TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 12:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.