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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 4 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 21, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1996, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 21, 6:46 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Monument, KS | |
| Jul 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Monument, KS | |
| Jul 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Russell Spgs, KS | |
| Jul 21, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Elkader, 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 168 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
- 2337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 21, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 150 PM MDT (250 PM CDT) SUN JUL 21 1996 MN PROB WL BE LOCATION OF BNDRY OF STBL AND UNSTBL AMS. FM MESO SFC DATA...DRIER AIR HAS PUSHED TO STRATTON NE TO TRIBUNE KS LINE. LINE OF CU ON 1K VIS DVLPG ALONG THIS BNDRY IN MOST BUOYANT AIR. ADAP SHOWS -8 LI AND NGM/ETA HAS THETA E/CAPE RDG. WL PUT 30-40 PCT CHC IN EAST OF BNDRY AND ISOLD REST FOR TNGHT. AS FRONT SETTLES OVR EXTREME S AND E PTN OF CWA ON MONDAY...THIS WIL BE WHERE BEST LIFT OCCURS. REST OF CWA WILL DEAL WITH CLDS AND UPSLOPE FLOW. AS FRONT TRIES TO LIFT N ON MONDAY NIGHT WL BROADBRUSH SCT TRW ACROSS AREA. NGM APPEARS BEST WITH LO LVL COOLING AND INCR RH WITH UPSLOPE FLOW. WL GO CLOSE TO NGM MOS. HULL GLD 063/084/062/088 113 HLC 066/085/063/089 343 CBK 064/085/064/088 223 MCK 062/081/060/085 413 TRB 066/086/066/088 343 ITR 059/084/060/085 113
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.