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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Goodland, KS

July 6, 1996Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1996, 11:07 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 58 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: Jul 6, 1996, 11:07 PM MDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1996, 12:05 AM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 11:40 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57	Burlington, CO
Jul 6, 11:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Burlington, 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 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 Jul 6, 2:06 PM MDT, 9 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:06 PM MDT, 9 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:40 PM MDT, 5 hours 27 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
Jul 6, 11:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jul 7, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	46 min
Jul 7, 4:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Gove	62 min
Jul 7, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	62 min
Jul 7, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman	66 min
Jul 7, 5:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	34 min
Jul 7, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	50 min
Jul 7, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jul 7, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	64 min
Jul 6, 10:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	64 min
Jul 7, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	65 min
Jul 7, 4:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	60 min
Jul 7, 5:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.