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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 11:21 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 11:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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
- 3022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 746 PM MDT (846 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995 DISCUSSION: GLD 88-D REFLECTIVITY DATA INDCS A MORE GEN AREA OF SHWRS AND TSTMS APCHNG OUR CWA FM E CNTRL CO. WOULD XPC A FEW SVR TSTMS THIS EVE WITH THIS COMPLEX AS IT MOVES INTO XTRM ERN CO AND SRN NW KS COUNTIES. CHCS OF SVR STMS SHOULD DCR LTR THIS EVE AS THE NOCTURNAL COOLING FACTOR BCMS A GREATER FACTOR. GLD 49/55 78 HLC 53/58 78 CBK 51/56 78 MCK 50/55 78 TRB 51/58 78 5C0 47/52 67 VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-170350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 447 PM MDT (547 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY AND WICHITA COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) FOR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR DOES NOT YET SHOW ANY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA NOT REACHING SEVERE LIMITS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN SHORT TERM FORECASTS. 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. VJN
Special weather statement, May 16, 10:37 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
COZ092-KSZ016-027>029-041-042-170440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 936 PM MDT (1036 PM CDT) TUE MAY 16 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 413 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORM FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT) WEDNESDAY MORNING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGpING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| May 16, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 66 min |
| May 16, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 48 min |
| May 16, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 61 min |
| May 16, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 43 min |
| May 16, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| May 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 39 min |
| May 16, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 61 min |
| May 17, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 20 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.