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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 9:46 PM CDT for Gove 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
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 Sep 2, 9:29 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 9:29 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 2, 8:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-030740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 736 PM MDT (836 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT)... CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT). HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THJE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 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 |
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.