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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Goodland, KS
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:55 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Tribune, 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.
- 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
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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</html>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 p
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 8:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 66 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.