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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS

June 8, 1995Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 12:04 AM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 12:04 AM MDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 12:50 AM MDT
In force
46 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 06:03 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3672 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 080605
TORGLD
KSC071-080650-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1204 AM MDT THU JUN 8 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1250 AM MDT (150 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY
 
AT 1202 AM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER
RADAR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF HORACE
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN
OVER RURAL AREAS.

THIS UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREELY
COUNTY.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LO4WEST FLOOR!

VJN

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, 12:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace46 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

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.