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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Goodland, KS

July 25, 1996Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 10:08 PM CDT for Logan County, Wallace County, Kansas. 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, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 11:10 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Logan County, KS, Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1996-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 353 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 1996-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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, 3:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 6 hours 33 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

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 6:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur48 min
Jul 25, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton48 min
Jul 25, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham46 min
Jul 25, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins62 min
Jul 25, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur63 min
Jul 25, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas64 min
Jul 25, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley66 min
Jul 25, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham65 min
Jul 25, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas61 min
Jul 25, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma65 min
Jul 25, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma62 min
Jul 25, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow60 min
Jul 25, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.