Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 4:38 PM CDT for Graham County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1995, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1995, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Studley, KS | Brief tornado reported by law enforcement. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 122139 TORGLD KSC065-179-122225- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 338 PM MDT (438 PM CDT) FRI MAY 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM MDT (525 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...WESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY ...EASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY AT 434 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOXIE MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... HOXIE BY 444 PM CDT TASCO BY 455 PM CDT STUDLEY BY 506 PM CDT ST PETER & BY 513 PM CDT MORLAND BY 513 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! GAHAGAN &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 29 min |
| May 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 19 min |
| May 12, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 12, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 33 min |
| May 12, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| May 12, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 46 min |
| May 12, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| May 12, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.