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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1995, 9:49 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 9:49 PM MDT (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 10:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 080350 TORGLD COC017-080440- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 949 PM MDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM MDT (1140 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO AT 948 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 40 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE WELLS OR 1 MILE EAST OF AROYA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... WILD HORSE BY 1000 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! VJN
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 Jun 7, 7:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 7:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 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, 5:43 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 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, 5:44 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 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, 5:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 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
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 9:28 PM MDT, 21 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, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 11:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 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.