Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 2:11 AM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 2:11 AM MDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 3:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:58 AM MDT | Tornado F0 | Tribune, KS | Brief tornado reported by sheriff's office. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 080812 RRA SVRGLD KSC071-080915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 AM MDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM MDT (415 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...GREELEY COUNTY AT 210 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORACE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 29 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... HORACE BY 216 AM MDT TRIBUNE BY 220 AM MDT GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING A"ND 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, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:47 PM MDT, 6 hours 24 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, 4 hours 43 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 11:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 11:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 12:04 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 12:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 12:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 1:24 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 77 min |
| Jun 8, 2:36 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 3:16 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 3:27 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 3:53 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 4:05 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:05 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan | 5 hr |
| Jun 8, 5:27 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.