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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Goodland, KS

June 22, 1996Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 3:23 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 22, 1996, 3:23 PM MDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1996, 4:25 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 3:30 PM MDTHail 0.75Stratton, CO
Jun 22, 3:45 PM MDTHail 1Joes, CO

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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 240 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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 22, 2:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
217 PM MDT (317 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996

...BIG CHALLENGE IS AMOUNT OF RAIN THIS EVE/TONIGHT...

ETA/NGM MODEL SHOWING WET FCST OVR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS
FIRST PERIOD.  FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS ATTM WITH
MOST SFC WNDS NOW S-SE AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S.  BIG TIME MSTR CONV
OVR TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTN PER ADAPS. DONT EXPECT THIS TO MOVE
MUCH AND WITH ADDITIONAL AFTN HEATING...TSTMS COULD GET GOING EARLY.
ADAPS ALSO SHOWING VRY UNSTABLE AMS WITH CAP ALREADY ERODED.  BOTTOM
LINE...MONSOONAL MSTR CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHWARD TONIGHT WITH
IMPULSE RIDING OUT OF THE ROCKIES.  ETA/NGM GRIDDED DATA FCST HI
THETA-E OVR HI PLAINS WITH STRONG UPWARD VVELS THRU TONIGHT.
ORIENTATION OF MONSOONAL CLDS AND DEEP MSTR FROM THIS MORNINGS
SOUNDINGS POINT TO SOME POSSIBLE HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS EVE.  TIMING
HAS SHWRS/TSTMS CONTINUING INTO THE LATE NGT HRS...MAINLY OVR
NE PARTS OF CWA.

HGTS BUILD AGAIN SUN/SUN NGT CUTTING OFF MSTR FROM SW AS DRIER AIR WL
SLOWLY WORK ITS WAY IN.  CHC OF FOG/STRATUS SUN NGT AND EARLY MON
MORNING AS ETA CROSS XCTNS SHOW EASTERLY SFC FLOW OVR MOIST GROUND.
THCKNSS PATTERN SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE NXT FEW DAYS.  WITH MORE SUNSHINE
EXPECTED...HIGH TEMPS SHOULD BE CLOSE TO NGM MOS.

GLD 061/085/058/087 711    HLC 066/085/061/089 612
CBK 063/086/061/087 711    MCK 064/084/059/086 711
TRB 061/087/059/088 711    ITR 058/084/056/084 711b

KPL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 10:33 AM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:59 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
257 PM MDT (357 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTCENTRAL COLORADO...SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...WESTCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM MDT...10 PM
CDT...

AT 3 PM MDT...4 PM CDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTCENTRAL COLORADO FROM NEAR YUMA
COLORADO TO KIT CARSON.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH.
HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT INB THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...LIE DOWN IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

RFF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
Jun 21, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan66 min
Jun 22, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace46 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins64 min
Jun 22, 5:57 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Thomas48 min
Jun 22, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne48 min

Nearby

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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.