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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Goodland, KS

August 1, 1996Cheyenne County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1996, 7:37 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 1, 1996, 7:37 PM MDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cheyenne County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 1996-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 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 1996-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 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 Aug 1, 7:32 PM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 7:32 PM MDT, 5 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 3:21 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-NEZ079-012325-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
321 PM MDT (421 PM CDT) THU AUG 1 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST
KANSAS...EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO...AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR PARTS OF
NORTHWEST KANSAS...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EXTREME EASTERN
COLORADO.

IN NEBRASKA...DUNDY COUNTY IS IN THE WATCH.

IN COLORADO...YUMA...CHEYENNE...AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES ARE IN THE
WATCH.

IN KANSAS...CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...SHERMAN...THOMAS...WALLACE...LOGAN
...GREELEY...AND WICHITA COUNTIES ARE IN THE WATCH.

REMEMBER THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. DAMAGING WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES
NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING.

MENTZER
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
NEZ080-081-020320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
517 PM MDT (617 PM CDT) THU AUG 1 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 899 IS IN EFFECT FOR HITCHCOCK
AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM CDT...

SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE HIGH
PLAINS OF EASTERN COLORADO AND WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF 3/4- TO 1 3/4-INCH
HAIL.

THIS EVENING...THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE
IN THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST.

IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

VOJTESAK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur64 min
Aug 2, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan66 min
Aug 2, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins63 min
Aug 2, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
Aug 2, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan65 min
Aug 2, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham48 min
Aug 1, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
Aug 1, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson64 min
Aug 1, 6:48 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
Aug 1, 7:01 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson34 min
Aug 2, 4:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 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.