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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 1996Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 11:58 AM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. 3 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 25, 1996, 11:58 AM MDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 1:00 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 18:00 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
Jul 25, 12:08 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Yuma, CO
Jul 25, 12:25 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Yuma, CO
Jul 25, 12:40 PM MDT	Hail 1.25	Yuma, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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 Jul 25, 10:18 AM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 10:18 AM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 10:28 AM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

COZ090>092-NEZ079>081-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-260600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1028 AM MDT (1128 AM CDT) THU JUL 25 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

CHEYENNE CO   CHEYENNE KS   DECATUR KS     DUNDY NE        GOVE KS
GRAHAM KS     GREELEY KS    HITCHCOCK NE   KIT CARSON CO   LOGAN KS
NORTON KS     RAWLINS KS    RED WILLOW NE  SHERIDAN KS     SHERMAN KS
THOMAS KS     WALLACE KS    WICHITA KS     YUMA CO

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

SYNOPSIS: SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE TO BRING WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE
REGION THROUGH THE EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE
NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY OVER ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

TURNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	64 min
Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	49 min
Jul 25, 3:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	33 min
Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	63 min
Jul 25, 4:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sherman	32 min
Jul 25, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	49 min
Jul 25, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	47 min
Jul 25, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	62 min
Jul 25, 12:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	66 min
Jul 25, 2:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	57 min
Jul 25, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	49 min
Jul 25, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	64 min
Jul 25, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	50 min
Jul 25, 5:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	65 min
Jul 25, 5:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	34 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.