Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 5:03 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 15, 1996, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1996, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 5:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Eckley, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 212 PM MDT (312 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 SHRT TERM DISCUSSION: LOOKS LIKE POSSIBLE MCS FORMATION ACROSS NRN PTN OF THE CWA IS THE MN CHALLENGE TNGT. PREFER TDAS ETA THRU 24 HRS...BUT NO GRIDDED DATA WAS AVAILABLE FM THIS MODEL ATTM. HWVR...ETA AFOS GRAPHICS THRU TNGT INDC ETA TO BE THE ONLY MODEL FAIRLY CNSTNT WITH HANDLING OF SHRT WV CURRENTLY INDCD NEAR WHERE WY...UTAH AND CO MEET. ETA CONTS TREND OF PAST COUPLE OF RUNS OF TAKING THIS SHRT WV ACROSS THE NRN PTN OF THE CWA. WITH INCRNG DWPNTS THIS EVE ACROSS THE CWA AS SFC WNDS BECOME SE AHEAD OF DVLPG LEE-SIDE SFC TROF...FEEL TSTM DVLPMT IS A GD BET...SPCLY N UNDER UPR DYNAMICS. HV WEIGHTED HIER POPS N ACCORDINGLY. CAPES OF 3000 TO 3500 AND SFC-3KM HELICITIES OF ABT 200 FM LBF MODIFIED MORNING SOUNDING...STRONGLY HINT AT SVR TSTMS TNGT. ALTHOUGH...INITIAL DVLPMT MAY BE SUPERCELL...DEVELOPING LLJT AND STRONG DRCTNL SHEAR IN THE LOWEST 3KM SUGGEST MCS...WITH POSSIBLE BOW ECHO EVOLUTION...SPCLY FOR NE COUNTIES. H7 +10 TO +12 THERMAL RIBBON INDCS A NW-SE MOTION OF SVR STMS AND COMPLEX. OTRW...TRIED TO TM CLDS AND WNDS TNGT WITH ESTIMATED MOVEMENT OF TSTMS AND LEE-SIDE TROF. OTRW...ACCEPTED FWC LOWS. ATTM...FEEL FOG IS NOT LKLY AS SFC WNDS SHOULD GAIN A WRLY COMPONENT BEHIND THE COMPLEX. SEE CCF PTN FOR DETAILS. LONG TERM DISCUSSION: NO ETA DATA BEYOND 24 HRS AND ONLY HAD NGM GRIDDED DATA TO LOOK AT. SEEMS MAIN PROBLEM IS FOLLOWING AND TIMING OF EACH S/WV IN FLOW ALF. THE MORE ZONAL FCST PATTERN LEAVES THE HI PLAINS OPEN FOR CONVECTION. NGM/AVN SIMILAR WITH LEE-SIDE TROF OVR FA BUT DIFFER ON UPPER LVL FEATURES THRU TUESDAY NGT. NGM STILL TRYING TO BRING MORE ENERGY IN FROM THE SW LATER TUE WITH 500MB DIFFLUENT FLOW OVR HI PLAINS. VVELS NOT VRY IMPRESSIVE BUT RISING MOTION OVR LEE TROF...STRONG SFC HEATING AND WEAK PERTUBATIONS ALF SHOULD GENERATE WIDELY SCT TO SCT TSTMS. COULD BE MORE OF A NOCTURNAL EVENT JUST E OF CWA DEPENDING ON TIMING. THCKNSS VALUES AND 850 TEMPS POINT TO VRY WARM DAYS AHEAD. GLD 063/093/063/094 412 HLC 068/094/068/096 4-2 CBK 065/094/064/094 412 MCK 066/093/066/095 5-2 TRB " 064/095/064/095 312 ITR 063/091/061/093 412 VJN/KPL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
COZ090>092-152315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 311 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF FAR EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS POSTED A TORNADO WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME TOWNS IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE... YUMA...WRAY...BURLINGTON...FLAGLER...CHEYENNE WELLS AND KIT CARSON. ADVANCE PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL DURING A TORNADO WATCH. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES C,ONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KPL
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:43 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
COZ090>092-152345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM JULESBURG TO LIMON....AND ARE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO YUMA...KIT CARSON AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVtE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VOJTESAK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:45 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
COZ090>092-152345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORR TO HEADING STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM JULESBURG TO LIMON....AND ARE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO YUMA...KIT CARSON AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.