Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1995, 4:25 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1995, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1995, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 012226 TORGLD KSC071-012330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 425 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT (630 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN GREELEY COUNTY AT 423 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 2 NORTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 1 MILE NORTH OF HORACE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 9 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... HORACE BY 434 PM MDT TRIBUNE BY 440 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! BARKER
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 Jul 1, 2:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 219 PM MDT (319 PM CDT) SAT JUL 1 1995 TIMING OF SHORTWAVES APPEAR TO BE MAIN TRICK THIS TIME AROUND. RAIN HAS ABOUT MOVED OUT OF NERN CWA AT 18Z AND CIGS HAVE GONE UP MOST EVERYWHERE BUT GLD. SOUTHWESTERN CWA HAS MOVED INTO THE 60S AND LAA HAS MOVED INTO THE 70S. WITH NEXT WAVE MOVING IN FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND DEWPOINTS IN ADVANCE OF SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 50S...A FEW BREAKS SHOULD ALLOW DECENT DESTABILIZATION. THUNDERSTORM ALREADY IN VICINITY OF COS AND AS AFTERNOON PROGRESSES WOULD EXPECT ACTIVITY TO FIRE JUST EAST OF FRONT RANGE... PARTICULARLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF PALMER DIVIDE WHERE MORE BREAKS AREW OCCURING...THEN PROPAGATE EAST. BOTH NGM AND ETA GRIDDED DATA SHOW EXCELLENT 700-850 MOISTURE CONVERGENCE OVER WRN CWA BY 00Z. LOW LEVEL TEMPS ARE COOL ENOUGH THAT SEVERE THREAT IS PROBABLY LOW...EXCEPT MAYBE EXTREME SW CWA...BUT AT LEAST SOME THUNDER A GOOD BET ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION AS DYNAMICS MOVES EAST. RWD AND GLD VWP SHOW 20-30 KT SOUTHERLY FLOW BRINGING GOOD MOISTURE TRANSPORT. WITH MODELS INDICATING INTENSIFYING LEE TROUGH OVER CWA BY 00Z MON AND SOUTHEAST WINDS PROGGED TO CONTINUE TO KEEP ATMOSPHERE MOIST... WOULD THINK POPS AGAIN WARRENTED SUNDAY. THOUGH SOME WESTERLY COMPONENT TO LOW LEVEL FLOW FORECASTED FOR CO COUNTIES...ENOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND WEAK DISTURBANCES LINGERING TO PROBABLY WARRENT AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE. LIKE WETTER FAN POPS OVER FWCS. THOUGH WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDS AND SOUTHEAST FLOW FOR ALL BUT WRN CWA...FAN PROBABLY HAS TOO LARGE DIURNAL RANGE...RECOMMEND COMPROMISE BETWEEN FAN/FWC. BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 10:30 AM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-020600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1030 AM MDT (1130 AM CDT) SAT JUL 1 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO SYNOPSIS: A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING IN FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL REINFORCE THE WET COOL WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. THESE DISTURBANCES...IN COMBINATION WITH THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA...AND COOLER MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES...WILL LIKELY ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE PLAINS OF EASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL THEN PROPAGATE EASTWARD INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE COLORADO COUNTIES AND THOSE KANSAS COUNTIES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 THIS AFTERNOON. THIS LIMITED SUNSHINE MAY FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE...AND ALLOW ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP...OR MOVE INTO... THESE AREAS TO BECOME QUITE STRONG. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE GREATEST THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS SOUTHWEST OF A YUMA/BURLINGTON/SHARON SPRINGS/LEOTI LINE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
COZ090>092-012020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 115 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO THE REGION. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHERN YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM MDT. 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 OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
COZ090>092-012020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 115 PM MDT SAT JUL 1 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM... DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO THE REGION. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHERN YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 10 PM MDT. 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 OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KSZ027>029-041-042-012225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 319 PM MDT (419 PM CDT) SAT JUL 1 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)... THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COLORADO BORDER ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD AND INTENSIFY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA COUNTIES THROUGH 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT). 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 OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 min |
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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.