Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Goodland, KS

August 28, 1996Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1996, 7:09 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 61 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 28, 1996, 7:09 PM MDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 28, 7:11 PM MDTHail 1.75Yuma, CO
Aug 28, 7:40 PM MDTHail 1Yuma, CO

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 6:19 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma31 min
Aug 29, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.