Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 11:31 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 3, 1996, 11:31 PM CDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1996, 12:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Grinnell, 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 040431 SVRGLD KSC063-040535- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1031 PM MDT (1131 PM CDT) FRI MAY 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1235 AM CDT (1135 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN GOVE COUNTY AT 1129 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OAKLEY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... GRINNELL BY 1147 PM CDT GRAINFIELD BY 1208 AM CDT PARK BY 12P21 AM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! VJN
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 3, 8:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 8:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 737 PM MDT (837 PM CDT) FRI MAY 3 1996 WILL REWORD LATE PM PKG FOR CLOUDS...WINDS AND PCPN CHCS PER LATEST AVBL DATA. LOOKING AT 21Z RUC...UPSTREAM H7/H5 FLOW IS INCREASING AND A WEAK H7 WAVE DEVELOPING AFTER 00Z IN SWRN KS COULD STIR UP A FEW MORE UNANTICIPATED SHOWERS ACROSS CWA AND MORE CLOUD COVER THAN PREVIOUS FCST HAS GOING. NORTHEAST WINDS REMAIN GUSTY AND WITH TRENDS IN RUC... THINKING IS THAT SYSTEM IS BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGNS OF MORE SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE LOWEST LAYERS TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF MOST OF THE CWA. SFC OBS AND AFOS STREAMLINE/CAP GRAPHICS SHOW FAVORABLE CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY ACRS EXTREME SERN CWA ZNS 42 AND 29. WITH DOWNSTREAM CAP WEAK TO NIL ACROSS SERN 1/4 OF KS... WILL KEEP SRN/ERNMOST ZONES IN/OUT OF SHRWS MORE THAN JUST THIS EVENING AS 50+ DP MOISTURE POURS SWWD INTO DEVELOPING SFC SYSTEM FROM NORTH CENTRAL KS. THINK TRW THREAT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA IS DECREASING RAPIDLY WITH THIS LATE AFTN DIURNAL SCENARIO ENDING. BUT TRW POSSIBILITY STILL LOOKS BEST ACRS KS 42/29 AND POSSIBLY 4/16. COORD W/GID ON PCPN TYPE/CHCS TONITE IN KS ZNS 4/16 VOJTESAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 3, 11:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
KSZ003-004-015-016-029-040500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 958 PM MDT (1058 PM CDT) FRI MAY 3 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5AM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... THE COUNTIES OF GOVE...SHERIDAN...DECATUR...NORTON...AND GRAHAM ARE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5AM CDT. A LINE OF RAPIDLY-DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THESE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS. AT 955 CDT)... THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG TO JUST WEST OF QUINTER. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL TO INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. WIND GUSTS APPROACHING 60 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE BULK OF THE SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY TO THE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...BUT BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. VOJTESAK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 63 min |
| May 4, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 64 min |
| May 4, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| May 4, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 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.