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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 1:31 PM MDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 1:57 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 041932 TORGLD KSC181-042035- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 131 PM MDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 235 PM MDT (335 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY AT 125 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES OBSERVED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND...OR 1 M$ILES SOUTH OF RULETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER RURAL PORTIONS OF WESTERN SHERMAN COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM. 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 4, 9:27 AM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:27 AM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 927 AM MDT (1027 AM CDT) TUE JUL 4 1995 MAIN PROBLEM THIS MORNING IS AFOS OUTAGE. CLOUDS AND SHOWERS/ THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SPRUNG UP ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA EARLY THIS MORNING. AREA IS MOVING EAST AND SHOULD MOVE OUT OF ALL BUT ERN CWA BY ZONE ISSUE TIME. PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO GO WITH SCATTERED UNTIL AREA MOVES OUT. WITH COOL MID LEVEL THROUGH ACROSS AREA...ANY BREAKS THAT DO D|EVELOP WILL FILL IN WITH INSTABILITY CU RATHER QUICKLY. AFTER A RAIN COOLED MORNING WOULD SUGGEST LOWERING TEMPS NE ZNS AND ERN KS ZNS. BULLER/BARKER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 10:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-050600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1030 AM MDT (1130 AM CDT) TUE JUL 4 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 COLD FRONT WHICH PUSHED THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT WILL BRING COOLER LOW LEVEL TEMPERATURES TO THE REGION. THESE COOL READINGS WILL REDUCE THE INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THE VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS. THE AIR MASS REMAINS VERY MOIST BEHIND THE BOUNDARY...SO THERE REMAINS A CHANCE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL DISSIPATE QUICKLY SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. BARKER
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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.