Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT for Wichita 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 8:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Leoti, KS | |
| Sep 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Leoti, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 030030 SVRGLD KSC203-030135- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 630 PM MDT (730 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM CDT (735 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WICHITA COUNTY AT 729 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEOTI OR 9 MILES NORTH OF SELKIRK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 13 MPH. PLEASE TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 32 min |
| Sep 2, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Sep 2, 9:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.