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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Goodland, KS

June 24, 1996Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 5:39 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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
Jun 24, 1996, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 24, 5:55 PM MDTHail 0.75Tribune, 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1181 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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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 24, 2:11 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:11 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
211 PM MDT (311 PM CDT) MON JUN 24 1996

SHORT TERM:  MDLS CONTINUE TO SHOW UNTABLE AMS OVR CWA THRU
TONIGHT WITH PLENTY OF MSTR.  NOSE OF LLJ LOOKS TO BE FURTHER
N WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE RIDING OVR IT THRU THE NGT.  WITH
VIRTUALLY NO CAP COMBINED WITH SFC HEATING AND LIFT OVR BNDRY
SHOULD BE PLENTY OF CONVECTION THRU THE EVE.  NGM GRIDDED DATA
PUTS HIEST CONVECTIVE PCPN ALG AND JUST E OF CWA THRU 12Z TUE.
ALSO LOOKS TO BE UNSTABLE ENUF THAT IT WL BE BREEZY OVR MOST AREAS
TONIGHT INTO TUE MORNING.

ALMOST RCMD TO ISSUE FFA FOR E PARTS OF CWA FOR TONIGHT. RIVERS
ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND SOILS SATURATED.  MDLS DIFFER ON QPF
IN THESE AREAS INTO TONIGHT.  HOWEVER...BASED ON CURRENT SAT PICS
...BREAK IN PCPN AND DIFFERING MDL QPF WL LET IT REST FOR NOW.  KPL

LONG TERM: LEE TROF TO REMAIN IN THE VCNTY THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH
CONTIUNING H7 WAA. ETA FCSTS +16 OVH GLD BY 48HRS. AS WE REMAIN JUST
UNDER THE BUILDING H5 RIDGE...SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK
FROM SW TO NE FM CENTRAL CO INTO WRN NE. LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY SIG
SHRT WV TO GIVE US TROUBLE WILL BE TMRW NGHT. AT THAT TIME...MDLS
INDICATE STG SLY H8 JET DVLPNG IN THTE RIDGE. H7 TEMPS VERY WARM AT
THAT TIME...BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SOURCE WILL BE GOOD...AND
CONSIDERING THE PATTERN OVER LAST FEW DAYS...20 PERCENT POPS WELL
WARRANTED. WENT BREEZY ON WED AHEAD OF LEE TROF WITH MOS INDICATING
GOOD WIND SPEEDS.

FAN GUID CONTS TO LOOK TOO WARM...AND FELT PRETTY GOOD ABOUT
STICKING CLOSE TO MOS/FMR VALUES. STAVISH

GLD 062/088/063/095 402    HLC 067/090/067/097 502
CBK 064/089/065/095 402    MCK 065/087/066/096 502
TRB 063/091/064/098 302    ITR 061/086/061/096 302

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:59 AM MDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
COZ090>092-242255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
249 PM MDT MON JUN 24 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EASTERN
COLORADO...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR CHEYENNE...KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS
EVENING.  LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH
ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THESE COUNTIES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR
THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL
RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

KPL
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 8:06 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins49 min
Jun 24, 8:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.