Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1995, 4:10 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1995, 4:10 PM MDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1995, 4:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 172213 TORGLD COC125-172255- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 410 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 PM MDT (555 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY AT 409 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 25 MILES NORTH OF WRAY OR 23 MILES NORTH OF ECKLEY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 11 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SOME FUNNEL CLOUDS ACROSS PHILLIPS COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! BOYLE
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 17, 1:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 1:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 145 PM MDT (245 PM CDT) MON JUL 17 1995 DISCUSSION...MAIN QUESTION CHC OF TRW THRU PD. LOOKS PRETTY HIGH TO ME...ESPECIALLY FOR TNGT. CELLS ALREADY POPPING UP WHEREVER THERE IS A BOUNDARY. BETTER ORGANIZED STUFF NRN NEBRASKA AND COL NOW HEADING THIS WAY...AND STUFF OVR SERN COL ALSO HEADED IN THIS DIRECTION. WITH WV CURVE CONSIDERING TO SHOW TROPICAL PLUME EQUIPPED WITH WEAK IMPULSES OVER AREA AND US YET TO HIT MAXIMUM HEATING...SOMETIME THIS AFTN OR EVE MOST PLACES SHOULD GET MEASURABLE. HEAVY RAIN PSBL AS PER HISTORY OF STORMS UNDER TROPICAL MOISTURE. OTRW CLOSE TO GUIDANCE WHICH LOOKS REASONABLE IN WHATS BASICALLY A PERSISTENCE PATTERN. KWIATKOWSKI FXCA22TJSJ 0
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 10:29 AM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-180600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1029 AM MDT (1129 AM CDT) MON JUL 17 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: THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS UNSTABLE TODAY. AS A RESULT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. KWIATKOWSKI WWUS35KAKQ 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 10:29 AM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-180600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1029 AM MDT (1129 AM CDT) MON JUL 17 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: THE AIR OVER THE REGION IS UNSTABLE TODAY. AS A RESULT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. KWIATKOWSKI WWUS35KAKQ 0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.