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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Goodland, KS

September 6, 1996Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1996, 4:21 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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 6, 1996, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1996, 5:25 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 6, 4:30 PM MDTHail 0.75Wallace, 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 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 6, 2:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
201 PM MDT (301 PM CDT) FRI SEP 6 1996

...MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM PRECIPITATION THROUGH FIRST AND SECOND
   PERIODS...

COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO EXTREME
SOUTHEAST COLORADO WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE
CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS JUST BEHIND THE FRONT. RUC HAS 5H SHORT WAVE
OVER WESTERN COLORADO MOVING NORTHEAST INTO THE REGION BY 0Z WITH
MM5 MODEL SHOWING GOOD DIVERGENCE AT 3H THROUGH 06Z. MM5 MODEL ALSO
HAS HIGHEST CAPES EXTENDING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES THIS
EVENING IN AREA THAT HAS RECEIVED THE MOST SUNSHINE TODAY. WITH FRONT
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING EAST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FORECAST TO
SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA BY 06Z IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING
SHORT WAVE. HIGH PW VALUES OVER THE REGION SHOULD RESULT IN HEAVY
RAINFALL IN SOME LOCATIONS.

AS SHORT WAVE MOVES NE AWAY FROM THE REGION OVERNIGHT...AND
DIVERGENCE ALOFT DECREASES PER THE MM5...CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO TAPER
OFF DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WITH SHOWERS ENDING BY MIDDAY. SFC
HIGH BUILDS INTO THE FA WITH DECREASING CLOUDINESS SPREADING FROM NW
TO SE. AVN MODEL FROM 0Z KEEPS SFC HIGH OVER CWA THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...PER DISCUSSION WITH DDC...AGREE 0Z MODEL RUNS
UNDERESTIMATED STRENGTH OF COOL AIR BEHIND THE FRONT...THEREFORE SFC
HIGH TO SHIFT FURTHER TO THE SOUTHEAST. THIS TO RESULT IN SE FLOW
OVER MOST OF CWA SATURDAY NIGHT. DRY AIR BEHIND FRONT SHOULD PREVENT
FOG DEVELOPMENT DESPITE UPSLOPE FLOW AND RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM
EARLIER CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY.

HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES FIRST AND SECOND PERIODS IN RESPONSE TO
GREATER THAN EXPECTED COOLING. WENT BELOW FMR/FAN N8UMBERS OF 0Z RUN
FOR OUT PERIODS AS WELL.

GLD 051/070/049/076 930  HLC 057/071/053/077 730
CBK 053/071/051/078 930  MCK 054/069/050/075 720
TRB 058/072/052/080 730  ITR 050/070/048/075 920

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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas36 min
Sep 6, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas35 min
Sep 6, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman32 min
Sep 6, 4:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins3 hr
Sep 6, 4:42 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDLogan, Thomas63 min
Sep 6, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas63 min
Sep 6, 5:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDRawlins3 hr
Sep 6, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock62 min
Sep 6, 3:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDHitchcock3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.