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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS

May 7, 1996Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 2:29 AM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
May 7, 1996, 2:29 AM CDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1996, 3:20 AM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 2:36 AM CDTHail 1Oakley, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 551 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 May 6, 8:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 8:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
754 PM MDT (854 PM CDT) MON MAY 6 1996

LOW CLOUDS...FOG AND DRIZZLE APPEAR LOCKED IN TONITE ONCE AGAIN.
TEMPS LOOK FINE GIVEN CURRENT READINGS AND MENTION OF OCNL DRIZZLE
ACRS MUCH OF AREA APPEARS THE BEST BET THRUOUT THE NITE. TRWS SEEM
POSSIBLE..BUT GIVEN THE STABILITY OF THE COOL LOW LAYERS AND LACK OF
ORGANIZED MID/UPR LEVEL TRIGGER...HAVE SOME TIME TO WAIT AND SEE
WHERE LOW-LEVEL JET SETS UP AND IF MID 50 DEW PTS CAN SLITHER ALG
THE KS/CO BORDER. WILL MENTION SHOWERS BUT WIL CUT DOWN/REWORD TRW
POPS TONITE ACRS NEB ZNS...ALL KS ZNS BUT 27>29/41/42 AND COLO ZNS
90/91 AND USE PERSISTENCE FORECAST FROM LAST NITE FOR MUCH OF THE
BODY OF 1ST FCST PD. 21Z RUC EXPECTS THE FIRST REAL SHOT OF H7/H5
ENERGY TO SLIP OUT OF THE ROCKIES AFTER 09Z SO WILL KEEP TRWS IN BUT
WIL WORD FOR DVLPG TOWARDS SUNRISE/AFTER MIDNIGHT ONCE AGAIN TONITE
PER SELS 02Z DISCUSSION.

VOJTESAK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan62 min
May 7, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan60 min
May 7, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove64 min
May 7, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur65 min
May 7, 1:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham63 min
May 7, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
May 7, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove62 min
May 7, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove51 min
May 7, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan62 min
May 7, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
May 7, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.