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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 7:22 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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
- Aug 2, 1996, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bird City, KS | |
| Aug 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wheeler, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 14.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 030023 SVRGLD KSC023-030125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 622 PM MDT (722 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT (725 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS AT 721 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 16 MILES SOUTH OF BENKELMAN OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BIRD CITY MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 14 MPH. THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF... BIRD CITY BY 742 PM CDT THIS STORM PRODUCED BASEBALL SIZED HAIL 13 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF BIRD CITY AT 715 PM CDT. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. JJK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 66 min |
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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.