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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 6, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1996, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 2:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 140 PM MDT (240 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 ...BIG CHALLENGE IS TSTM CHANCES THIS EVE/TONIGHT... ETA MDL OF CHOICE DUE TO SFC FTRS AND PAST PERFORMANCE. ETA SFC LOW OVR KS/NE BORDER THIS EVE WITH LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE POOLING NEAR LOW VCNTY. BEST UPWARD FORCING IS INDICATED ON TOP OF AND N OF THIS SFC LOW. MODIFIED MORNING SNDGS ALSO POINT TO THIS AREA WITH MUCH MORE POTENTIAL ENERGY AND INSTABILITY. A MODIFIED SOUNDING BETWEEN MCK-LBF OUTPUTS CAPE OF AROUND 5000 J/KG. S AND W OF THIS AREA...SFC DEWPOINTS HAVE DRIED OUT THIS AFTN WITH SW SFC WNDS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. TAIL END OF S/WV SHOULD EFFECT FAR E COLO INTO NW KS WITH RETURN OF LOW LVL MSTR FORECAST. ATTM...STRONG CAP INDICATED BY ADAPS OVR HI PLAINS SPCLY W OF GLD. ARRIVAL OF COLD FRONT THIS EVE AND 850-700 TEMP ADVECTION WILL HELP DESTABILIZE THE AMS. STILL CONCERN ABT ETA KEEPING DRIER AIR OVR FAR NW KS/E COLO. WITH MAIN ENERGY JUST N OF CWA AND UPPER LVL FLOW MORE SW TO NE...FEEL ANY ACTIVITY WILL BE MOSTLY OUT OF FA. IN OUT PERIODS...FRONT AND ASSOCIATED MSTR CONVERGENCE PUSHES SE LATER TONIGHT. STRONG SFC HI PRESSURE BUILDS OVR E COLO INTO W KS WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH AMS BCMG MORE STABLE. MDLS AGREE IN PUSHING DRIER AIR INTO AREA WED AND THURS WITH BUILDING 500MB HGTS. GLD 56/83/58/90 10- HLC 62/86/61/91 2-- CBK 58/84/60/91 10- MCK 62/84/60/90 30- TRB 58/85/60/91 -0- ITR 5 5/82/57/89 10- KPL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.