Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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 01:18 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, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wheeler, KS | |
| Aug 2, 8:51 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Francis, 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, 1.3 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
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 2, 2:06 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:06 PM CDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 106 PM MDT (206 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 SHRT TERM: ONLY CONCERN TNGT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF TSTMS. ETA IS MUCH STGR WITH DVLPG AN IMPL OVNGT CURRENTLY OVR WRN WY. NGM IS MUCH WKER WITH THIS SYS BY 12Z SAT. LOOKING AT GRIDDED DATA...NEITHER THE ETA OR NGM INDCD MUCH IN THE WAY OF MID LVL Q-VEC CNVRG OR LLVL MOISTURE CNVRG ACRS OUR CWA OVNGT. FURTHERMORE ...H7 TEMPS ARE PROGD TO BE ON THE RISE BGNG THIS AFT. ONE FACTOR FAVORABLE FOR TSTM ACTVTY THIS EVE IS VERY HI DWPNTS E OF A FAIRLY SHARP DRY LN WHICH WL LKLY RESIDE NEAR THE CO/KS BDR. MODIFIED CAPES FM SHARP 12Z SOUNDINGS ARE 3500+ SO SVR STMS PSBL. IF DAYTIME HEATING BREAKS THRU CAP LTR THIS EVE...ENOUGH UPR FORCING MAY OCR OVR THE CWA TNGT WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE LLJ TO KEEP TSTMS GOING INTO THE ERN PTN OF THE CWA. WL GO SLIGHTLY ABV FWC GUIDANCE POPS ACRS ALL PTNS OF THE CWA TNGT. GVN MORE WRLY SFC COMPONENT WNDS PROGD BY BOTH THE NGM/ETA LTR TNGT...FEEL FOG WL NOT BE A MAJ PROBLEM AND WL ONLY MENTION PATCHY FOG PSBL FOR ERN NW KS AND RED WILLOW COUNTY NE. LONG TERM: INCRNG H7 AND H8 TEMPS AND LLVL WRLY COMP WNDS SHOULD BRING HOTTER AND SOMEWHAT DRIER WX ON SAT INTO SUN ACRS THE CWA. ETA/AVN H8 TEMPS OF +35 FOR SUN 00Z LOOK TOO WRM GVN WET GND AND LLVL MOISTURE AVAILABILTY...HWVR...EVEN NGM H8 TEMP IS ARND +30 DEG C...SO HI TEMPS WELL INTO THE 90S CWA WIDE SEEM IN ORDER. GVN DRIER AIR AND THE LACK OF DEFINED UPR AIR SUPPORT THRU PD 3...WL NOT MENTION POPS BEYOND TIL PD 4 WHEN THE NXT COLD FNT MOVING SE FM THE NRN ROCKIES MOVES INTO THE CWA. TIMING OF FNT BY ETA/NGM LOOKS A LTL FAST COMPARED TO THE AVN...BUT FEEL A DEEP UPR LVL TROF OVR THE NRN ROCKIES SHOULD ALLOW SFC HI TO BLD OVR THE PAC NW GREATER THAN PROGD BY SHRT RANGE MODELS ATTM...ALLOWING FOR A RLTVLY ERL COLD FNTL PSG. FWC TEMPS LOOK GD...XCP PERHAPS A TAD LOW FOR SE COUNTIES ON SUN WHERE FNTL PSG WL LKLY BE IN THE ERLY A|FT HRS...ALLOWIG TEMPS TO RISE INTO THE MID 90S. SEE CCF PTN FOR TEMP AND POP DETAILS. GLD 65/95/65/92 211 HLC 68/94/69/96 211 CBK 66/95/67/94 211 MCK 66/95/67/93 211 TRB 65/96/65/93 211 ITR 64/96/63/94 211 VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-022255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 252 PM MDT (352 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS... SCATTERED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR THIS EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT FORM ARE LIKELY TO BE EXTREMELY STRONG DUE TO THE RECENT WARM HUMID CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. JJK
Local storm report, Aug 2, 8:10 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>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, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 63 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, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 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.