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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Goodland, KS

July 31, 1996Thomas County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 11:25 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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: Jul 31, 1996, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 31, 11:41 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56	Colby Muni Arpt, 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.9

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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 31, 3:01 PM CDT, 8 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:01 PM CDT, 8 hours 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
201 PM MDT (301 PM CDT) WED JUL 31 1996

SHORT TERM: WENT ABV POP GUIDC YET LWR THAN GOING FCST. AM NOT
CONFIDENT ALL AREAS WILL GET PCPN TONITE GIVEN ETA K23 SHOWING THKNS
CONFLUENCE DOWNSTREAM OVR CWA WITH TRW CLUSTER DEVELOPING SE WYO
ATTM. WUD THINK LLJ FORMS AFT SUNSET AND THIS OCCURS ON TOP OF THE
CWA AS ETA SFC SHOWS WEAK SFC HI...AND H5 VORT BTWN GLD AND DDC BY
12Z. TEMPS SEEM GUD ENUF TO STAY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY.

LONG TERM:  EXPCT OVRNGT CONVCTN TO BE WEAKNG THRU MRNG HRS IN ERN
SRN CWA AS S/WV EXITS AREA.  WV SHOWS MORE WAVES NR W CST READY TO
CLIMB RDG AND ENTR CWA VIA NW FLO FOR THU.  MDLS HAVE RDG BLDG IN
RSPNS TO DEEPNG LO OVR SW CAN.  THIS WILL FORCE S/WVS FURTHER TO N
AND E OF CWA BY LATE IN WEEK AND HAVE GONE DRY/WARMER FOR FRI.
ALTHO ALL MDLS HAVE SIMILAR TREND...NGM/ETA PREFERRED FOR S/WV
DETAILS.

GLD 62/90/62/95 4223   HLC 65/88/65/92 434-
CBK 63/90/62/95 4223   MCK 63/88/64/94 533-
TRB 63/91/64/95 5223   ITR 61/90/62/94 522-

VOJTESAK/HULL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 9:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-NEZ079-080-010830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
827 PM MDT (927 PM CDT) WED JUL 31 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM MDT (3 AM CDT)...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION.
THIS RAPID DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 2 AM MDT (3
AM CDT). GENERAL MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS SOUTHEAST AT
AROUND 25 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...LISTEN TO 162.400 MHZ AND
IN KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTIES...LISTEN TO 162.525 MHZ.

IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

GONSOWSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	49 min
Jul 31, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	51 min
Jul 31, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	65 min
Jul 31, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	51 min
Jul 31, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	63 min
Jul 31, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	65 min
Jul 31, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	49 min
Jul 31, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	50 min
Jul 31, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	63 min
Jul 31, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	62 min
Jul 31, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	65 min
Jul 31, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	65 min
Aug 1, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	47 min
Aug 1, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wichita	61 min
Jul 31, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	65 min
Jul 31, 9:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Yuma	63 min
Jul 31, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	63 min
Jul 31, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	62 min
Jul 31, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	62 min
Aug 1, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	48 min
Aug 1, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	50 min
Aug 1, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	47 min
Aug 1, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	59 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.