Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Goodland, KS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Stratton, CO | |
| Jun 22, 3:45 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Joes, 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.
- 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
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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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:59 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-NEZ079-080-222200- 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 5:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996Every 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.