Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 6:28 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 25, 1996, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:47 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Russell Spgs, 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, 11.5 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
- 368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 235 PM MDT (335 PM CDT) THU JUL 25 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SPREADING OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF SHORT WAVE OVER WY/CO. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AS LLJ EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO SPREAD FURTHER EAST TONIGHT AS SFC RIDGE HAS SHIFTED OUT OF THE AREA. SHARP MODIFIED SOUNDINGS FROM DDC AND LBF SUGGEST CAPES IN THE 2500 TO 3000 RANGE OVER FA THUS POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS. SATELLITE DATA SHOWS ANOTHER WEAK WAVE FOLLOWING THIS FIRST WAVE WHICH WILL BRING CHANCES FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO REGION THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. MODELS IMPLY MOST ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT SLIGHTLY NORTHEAST OF THE REGION AS RIDGE SHIFTS A LITTLE CLOSER. DO NOT DISCOUNT CHANCES FOR WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF FOURTH PERIOD FOR NOW. FWC/FAN NUMBERS HAVE BEEN TOO HIGH ON OVERNIGHT LOWS...AND CLOSE OR TOO LOW ON HIGHS AS OF LATE...AND APPEARS THIS TREND TO CONTINUE UNTIL SATURDAY. GLD 057/084/060/086 733 HLC 059/085/062/087 733 CBK 058/085/061/086 733 MCK 057/082/060/084 733 TRB 058/086/060/088 733 ITR 056/082/059/085 733 TURNER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
COZ090>092-252300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 154 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT. YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES ARE ALL INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS. IF STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA... SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED STRUCTURE. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-260250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 246 PM MDT (346 PM CDT) THU JUL 25 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...EASTERN COLORADO...NORTHWEST KANSAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT...1000 PM CDT... RESIDENTS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IN NORTHWEST KANSAS THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...SHERMAN... THOMAS...SHERIDAN...WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...AND WICHITA. IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...THE WATCH INCLUDES NORTON AND GRAHAM COUNTIES. IN EASTERN COLORADO THE WATCH INCLUDES YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES. IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THE WATCH INCLUDES DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. HULL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 32 min |
| Jul 25, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 66 min |
| Jul 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 6:36 PM CDT | 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.