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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Goodland, KS

June 7, 1995Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 9:58 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1995, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3672 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
12.9

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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 Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 8:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED TEMPS IN CCF...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
747 PM MDT (847 PM CDT) WED JUN 7 1995

DISCUSSION:  SOME OF THE STMS DVLPG E OF THE FNT RANGE OF CO COULD
MAKE IT INTO THE EXTRM WRN COUNTIES OF NW KS LTR THIS EVE...ESP IF
THE LOW LVL JET INTENSIFIES DURG THIS TM.  SO...FEEL IT WOULD BE
SAFE TO INCR POPS THERE TO 30 PCT TO CVR THIS SITUATION.

OTRW...I HV SOME CONCERNS ABT THE SECOND FNT CURRENTLY EXTENDING FM
JUST S OF A CHEYENNE WY...SIDNEY NE...ALLIANCE NE LN.  ETA...HAS THE
FNT MOVING INTO THE NRN TWO THIRDS OF THE CWA BY 12Z...WHILE THE NGM
ONLY ADVANCES IT TWD THE KS/NE BDR.  SINCE...THIS IS MY 1ST NGT IN
EVE ROTATION AFT 3 DAY BREAK...I SOUGHT GUIDANCE FM THE PMDSPD FOR
THE MODEL OF PREFERENCE AND GOT LTL HELP.  SINCE PREVIOUS SHIFT DID
NOT MENTION THIS FEATURE...BELIEVE WE SHOULD CONSIDER AT LEAST THE
ETA/NGM BLEND IF NOT THE ETA BY ITSELF...GVN MODEL BIASES AND THE
LARGE PRESSURE GRAD N OF THE FNT.

IN ANY EVENT...FEEL SFC WNDS MAY BE MORE EASTERLY AND NORTHEASTERLY
TNGT OVR THE CWA...ALLOWING FOR MORE IN THE WAY OF LOW CLDCVR AND
PATCHY FOG BY DAYBREAK.  GVN SFC DWPNTS IN THE LWR 60S OVR MST OF NW
KS...OVNGT LOWS SHOULD BE RAISED ONE CAT.

HI TEMPS ON THU COULD ALSO BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY THIS COOLER
AIR MASS OVR MUCH OF THE CWA.

GLD 57/74 33  HLC 61/76 23
CBK 58/74 33  MCK 57/68 45
TRB 59/77 33  5C0 56/71 44

VJN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
COZ091-080445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
543 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KIT CARSON
COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT...

AT 530 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER IN
WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST COLORADO.

A COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH MOVING INTO THE AREA MAY CAUSE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION.  THE AIR ACROSS THE REGION
IS VERY DRY SO ANY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA SHOULD BE ISOLATED.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

JENNER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
COZ091-080445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
543 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KIT CARSON
COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT...

AT 530 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER IN
WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST COLORADO.

A COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH MOVING INTO THE AREA MAY CAUSE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION.  THE AIR ACROSS THE REGILON
IS VERY DRY SO ANY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA SHOULD BE ISOLATED.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

JENNER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
COZ091-080445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO PARA 2
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
543 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN KIT CARSON
COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT...

AT 530 PM MDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO SEVERE WEATHER IN
WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY OF NORTHEAST COLORADO.

EASTERLY UPSLOPE WINDS ACROSS THE AREA COULD CAUSE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION LATTER THIS EVENING.

 IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

JENNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas65 min
Jun 7, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan61 min
Jun 8, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace64 min
Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace64 min
Jun 8, 1:04 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley46 min
Jun 8, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace46 min
Jun 8, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan69 min
Jun 8, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan46 min
Jun 8, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove77 min
Jun 8, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jun 8, 3:36 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley49 min
Jun 8, 4:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
Jun 8, 4:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham33 min
Jun 8, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan48 min
Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan6 hr
Jun 8, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan5 hr
Jun 8, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove30 min
Jun 7, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne51 min
Jun 7, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne62 min
Jun 8, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson65 min
Jun 8, 12:27 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson63 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.