Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 4:04 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 66 min. 4 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
- May 9, 1996, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 5:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kit Carson County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 9, 4:08 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Flagler, CO | |
| May 9, 4:25 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Seibert, CO | |
| May 9, 4:48 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Vona, CO | |
| May 9, 5:10 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Bethune, 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 092205 SVRGLD COC063-092310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 404 PM MDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...WESTERN KIT CARSON COUNTY AT 403 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 28 MILES EAST OF LIMON OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLAGLER MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... FLAGLER BY 415 PM MDT SEIBERT BY 430 PM MDT VONA BY 443 PM MDT STRATTON BY 456 PM MDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! VJN/KL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 3:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| May 9, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 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.