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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 1996Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 7:33 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1996, 7:33 PM MDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 8:35 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 01:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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: 353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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, 2:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 58 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, 1:55 PM MDT, 5 hours 38 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, 2:47 PM MDT, 4 hours 46 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

Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 6:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	48 min
Jul 25, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	48 min
Jul 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	46 min
Jul 25, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	62 min
Jul 25, 7:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	63 min
Jul 25, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	64 min
Jul 25, 8:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	66 min
Jul 25, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	65 min
Jul 25, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman, Thomas	61 min
Jul 25, 9:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	62 min
Jul 25, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	65 min
Jul 25, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	60 min
Jul 25, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.