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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Goodland, KS

June 8, 1995Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 12:44 AM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 12:44 AM MDT (06:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 1:30 AM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 581 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 080645 RRA
SVRGLD
KSC199-080730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1244 AM MDT THU JUN 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM MDT (230 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...EASTERN WALLACE COUNTY
 
AT 1242 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES EAST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR 2 MILES NORTH OF
WALLACE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN
RURAL AREAS.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

VJN

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, 7:47 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:47 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 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, 9:28 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-080930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
927 PM MDT (1027 PM CDT) WED JUN 7 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EAST CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST COLORADO UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT)...

THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED
A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE HIGHLIGHTED AREA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN
AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO
OCCUR.  BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING
IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

VJN /LEJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
Jun 7, 9:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas65 min
Jun 7, 10:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan61 min
Jun 7, 11:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace64 min
Jun 7, 11:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace64 min
Jun 8, 12:04 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley46 min
Jun 8, 12:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan69 min
Jun 8, 1:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan46 min
Jun 8, 1:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove77 min
Jun 8, 2:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jun 8, 2:36 AM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley49 min
Jun 8, 3:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
Jun 8, 3:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham33 min
Jun 8, 3:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan48 min
Jun 8, 4:05 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan6 hr
Jun 8, 4:05 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan5 hr
Jun 8, 5:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove30 min

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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.