Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 10:28 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 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 03:31 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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
- 2637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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, 9:48 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 9:48 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 848 PM MDT (948 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 IN PAST 15 MINUTES...CONVECTION IS BACK BUILDING INTO NEBR ZN 80 AND KS ZN 1 ALONG FRONT ACRS ERN CO. THEREFORE...WILL NOT DROP ANY ZONES IN WATCH AREA. VOJTESAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:57 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ080-081-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 556 PM MDT (656 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)... A LINE OF STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. EXPECT SOME OF THE CELLS IN THIS LINE OF STORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIZO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| Aug 6, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 12:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 12:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.