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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Goodland, KS

July 28, 1996Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 7:43 PM MDT for Dundy County, Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 17 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: Jul 28, 1996, 7:43 PM MDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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
Jul 28, 7:43 PM MDT	Hail 2.5	Benkelman, NE
Jul 28, 7:50 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Benkelman, NE
Jul 28, 8:09 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Trenton, NE
Jul 28, 8:09 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Trenton, NE

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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 290145
SVRGLD
NEC057-087-290215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
743 PM MDT (843 PM CDT) SUN JUL 28 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT (900 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN DUNDY COUNTY
   ...NORTHEASTERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 740 PM MDT (840 PM CDT)...TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED
BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR.  ONE STORM WAS 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
BENKELMAN MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THE OTHER STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTH OF TRENTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.

MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	60 min
Jul 28, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.