Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1995, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 694 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGLD 220121 RRA SVRGLD KSC203-220225- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 721 PM MDT (821 PM CDT) WED JUN 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM MDT (925 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WICHITA COUNTY AT 819 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES WEST OF LEOTI OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF SELKIRK MOVING NORTH AT 13 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST WICHITA COUNTY AFTER 825 PM CDT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! ENTWISTLE
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 21, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 225 PM MDT (325 PM CDT) WED JUN 21 1995 THE FCST PROBLEM WILL BE THE CHC OF TSTMS WHICH ENTIRELY DEPENDS ON THE STRENGTH OF THE CAP. ACTIVITY THIS MRNG DUE TO CAP HAVG WEEKENED SLIGHTLY AND S/W THAT MOVED THRU HAVG ENUF COLD AIR TO SET THINGS OFF. OVERALL PREFER THE ETA AGAIN DUE TO SATL...UPR AIR ANAL...AND SFC ANAL VERIFYING YDAS 00Z RUN BETTER...AND ALSO SHOWG 12Z RUN BEING CLOSER TO WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. HWVR...DO SLIGHTLY FAVOR THE NGM FOR S/W DETAIL SINCE IT SHOWS THE WEAK S/WS THAT ARE UPSTREAM A LTL BETTER. LEE TROF/DRY LINE STILL OVR ERN CO/NE PANHANDLE. SATL SHOWS S/W EXTENDG FM WRN CO INTO CNTRL NM. TSTMS ARE ALREADY FIRING UP IN NM. ALTHOUGH NOT SHOWG UP WELL ON SATL...UPR AIR ANAL DID SHOW ANOTHER S/W OVR AZ. S/WS WITH BNDRIES SHOULD SET OFF TSTMS. HWVR...BASED ON UPR AIR ANAL AND ADAP...CAP STRENGTH APPEARS TO HAVE COME UP A LTL...PLUS CIRRUS SHIELD HAS HELD BACK TEMPS SOME. ETA TIME SCNTS OF TEMP SHOWS THE STRENGTHENING CAP. HWVR...LATER ON TON...CAP WEAKENS AGAIN AND COULD ALLOW MORE OVERNIGHT CONVECTION. CONSIDERING ALL FACTORS...CHC EXISTS FOR TSTMS THRU THE NIGHT. FOR THU...CONVECTION SHOULD HOLD OFF TO THE LATE AFTN/EARLY WITH THE ARRIVAL OF FRONT...PVA...AND COOLING ALFT. DUE TO LATER ARRIVAL OF FRONT...WINDS WILL STAY FM THE SOUTH. MOS CONTS TO DO A GOOD JOB ON MINS. LOOKING AT DPS TO THE SOUTH COMBINED WITH EXPECTED CLD COVER AND WINDS...MOS MINS LOOK FINE. MOS MAXES MAY BE A LTL LOW BASED ON ITS RECENT PERFORMANCE/NORMAL BIASES COMBINED WITH FACT OF LATER ARRIVING FRONT. GLD 61/87 33 HLC 65/92 33 CBK 63/88 33 MCK 66/89 32 TRB 60/89 33 5C0 58/86 33 BULLER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:13 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
COZ090-091-KSZ001-002-013>015-027>029-041-042-NEZ079-080-220715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 713 PM MDT (813 PM CDT) WED JUN 21 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT (200 AM CDT) FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...EASTERN COLORADO...AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN KANSAS... CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN... WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA IN NEBRASKA... DUNDY AND HITCHCOCK IN COLORADO... YUMA AND EASTERN KIT CARSON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE 555 PM MDT (655 PM CDT) IN YUMA...CHEYENNE COLORADO...AND GREELEY COUNTIES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN HAIL LARGER THAN A NICKEL...WINDS STRONGER THAN 58 MPH...OR BOTH. BLINDING RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING OFTEN ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 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.