Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 6:51 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 4, 1996, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 4, 2:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 102 PM MDT (202 PM CDT) SUN AUG 4 1996 SHRT TERM CHALLENGE WILL DEFINITELY BE SVR WX CHCS LT THIS AFT INTO TNGT. ETA GRIDDED DATA INDCS STRONG H7-H4 Q-VEC CNVRG BGNG OVR NE CO AND SPREADING ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA BY EVE WITH ACCOMPANYING LLVL MOISTURE CNVRG. FEEL ATTM...SPC MAY EXTEND ITS MODERATE AND SLIGHT RISKS FTHR S AND SLIGHTLY WEST INTO OUR CWA AS CAPE VALUES TO 4000 J AND MORE FAVORABLE WND PROFILES DVLP LTR TDA. INCRNG MID AND UPR LVL WNDS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE LARGEST HELICITY INCREASES OVR OUR AREA...ALTHOUGH ...AS SFC LOW DEEPENS MORE OVR WRN KS BY EVE...WNDS SHOULD BACK AT THE SFC...GIVING MORE LLVL CYCLONIC TURNING....SPCLY NERN COUNTIES. ATTM WILL WEIGHT HIER POPS TNGT ACROSS NE COUNTIES AND CALL FOR SOME STMS SVR WITH LARGE HAIL AS IT JUST IS A MATTER OF TM BEFORE OTHER WATCHES ARE ISSUED. IN THE OUT PERIODS...MODELS CONT TO FLIP FLOP ON THE AMOUNT OF COOLING XPCD BEHIND THE FNT. LTST ETA AND SPCLY THE NGM NOW INDC HI TEMPS RECOVERING QUICKLY ON MONDAY AS THE FNT BEGINS TO WASH OUT ACROSS CENTRAL KS. ATTM...WILL LKLY GO WITH TEMPS 1 CAT LWR THAN THIS MORNINGS FWC...MNLY DUE XPCD NRLY SFC WNDS BEHIND THE FNT AND GROUNDS THAT WILL LKLY BE MOISTENED AGN BY ADDITIONAL RNFL TNGT. WITH GD MID AND UPR LVL SUBSIDENCE XPCD ON MONDAY...SEE NO REASON FOR POPS ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NGT. WILL LEAVE POPS OUT ON TUE GVN THAT ITS 4TH PD AND SEE LTL FORCING TO RESULT IN PRECIP ATTM. HIGHS ON TUE SHOULD RECOVER CLSR TO FWC HIGHS. SEE CCF PTN FOR POP AND TEMP DETAILS. GLD 61/88/63/93 500 HLC 67/92/69/95 610 CBK 63/89/66/94 5-0 MCK 64/89/67/92 610 TRB 63/91/64/95 400 ITR 59/87/62/91 400 VJN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:12 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-050520- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 514 PM MDT (614 PM CDT) SUN AUG 4 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS POSTED FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)... CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAKING A RUN AT THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT FROM THE SOUTHWEST. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT OVER THE FORECAST AREA. IN THE SHORT-TERM...AREAS EAST OF A TRIBUNE TO HOXIE LINE CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO BE IN THE VICINITY THROUGH 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT). UPSTREAM OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...HAIL TO ONE INCH HAS BEEN REPORTED. LATER TONIGHT...A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL SYSTEM WILL FURTHER ENHANCE ACTIVITY OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.