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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Goodland, KS

June 21, 1996Logan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 8:24 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 21, 1996, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 8:27 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Russell Spgs, KS
Jun 21, 8:27 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Russell Spgs, KS

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 21, 2:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
149 PM MDT (249 PM CDT) FRI JUN 21 1996

SHRT TERM:  TSTMS AND POTENTIAL FOG AND DRIZZLE ACROSS THE NRN HALF
OF THE CWA ARE MAIN CONCERNS TONIGHT.  THE ETA FINALLY SEEMS TO HAVE
A GOOD GRASP OF THE SFC SYNOPTIC FEATURES THROUGH PERIOD 1.

ATTM BELIEVE WINDS SHIFTING TO AN EASTERLY COMPONENT WILL ALLOW GOOD
LOW LVL MOISTURE CONVRG ACROSS TTHE NRN TWO THIRDS OF THE CWA BY 06Z.
IN ADDITION...A SECOND UPPER LVL IMPULSE COMING OUT OF THE CENTRAL
ROCKIES INTO THE NRN PLAINS PLACES OUR CWA IN THE RIGHT REAR
QUADRANT OF THE ASSOCIATED JETLET.  SUBSEQUENTLY...WILL GO WITH
40 PERCENT POPS ACROSS NRN HALF OF THE CWA TONIGHT AND 20 PERCENT
S.

FOG MAY DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AFTER TSTMS MOVE EAST OUT OF THE CWA
AND SFC WINDS BECOME MORE ERLY.  WILL HIGHLIGHT AREAS OF FOG FOR ALL
NW KS AND XTRM SW NE COUNTIES AND WILL MENTION IT NEAR THE KS/NE
BORDER FOR YUMA/KIT CARSON COUNTIES AS WIND SHIFT LINE WILL BE ALONG
ERN PTNS OF THESE COUNTIES.

OTHERWISE WILL KEEP CLOSE TO FAN LOWS...FWC STILL NOT AVAILABLE FROM
THIS MORNINGS RUN.  SEE CCF FOR DETAILS.  VJN

LONG TERM:  AFT SOME POSSIBLE LOW CLDS/FOG OVR PARTS OF CWA SATURDAY
MORNING...MORE SUNSHINE EXPECTED FOR ANOTHER VRY WARM DAY.
TROFFINESS OVR HI PLAINS THRU THE DAY AND ITS LOOKING LIKE NW
KANSAS/SW NEBRASKA WL BE E OF TROF AXIS.  E/SE WINDS WL BRING
ADDITIONAL MSTR TO THE AREA.  BEST CHC FOR SHWRS/TSTMS LOOK TO BE IN
THE EVE WEHN SHORTWAVE EJECTS OUT OF THE ROCKIES AND POS VORTICITY
ADVECTION RIDES AHEAD OF IT.  UPWARD VVELS...THETA-E RIDGE AND
IMPRESSIVE DIR SHEAR PROFILE INDICATED ON ETA GRIDDED DATA FOR NE
PARTS OF CWA ON SATURDAY.  GRIDDED DATA ALSO SUPPORTS CONTINUING
UNSTALBE AMS AND POSSIBLE STRONG TSTM ACTIVITY THRU THE NGT OVR FAR E
SECTIONS OF FA.

MDLS SHOW MUCH MORE STABLE AMS OVR HI PLAINS ON SUNDAY AS TROF
AND HI MSTR MOVES FURTHER E.  FAN TEMPS AND POPS GUIDANCE ACCEPTED
NXT FEW PERIODS.  KPL

GLD 059/090/060/090 433    HLC 065/092/064/092 434
CBK 062/091/062/091 433    MCK 062/088/062/090 435
TRB 060/093/061/094 222    ITR 057/089/058/090 432

VJN/KPL
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
517 PM MDT FRI JUN 21 1996

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

440 PM     6 SW BETHUNE              CO   STEEL CATTLE SHED BLOWN APART.
06/21/96   KIT CARSON                     PIECES FOUND ON TOP OF BARN AND
                                          3/8 MILE AWAY IN FIELD. NEAR
                                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. PICK-UP
                                          TRUCK CAMPER OVERTURNED.
STAVISH

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:51 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	62 min
Jun 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Wallace	46 min
Jun 22, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	64 min
Jun 22, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	48 min
Jun 22, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	62 min
Jun 22, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.