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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1996, 8:17 AM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Oct 7, 1996, 8:17 AM MDT (14:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1996, 8:50 AM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 071419 SVRGLD KSC181-071450- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 817 AM MDT MON OCT 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTH CENTRAL SHERMAN COUNTY AT 814 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOODLAND MOVING SOUTH AT 17 MPH. PLEASE TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY PRODUCE QUARTER-SIZED HAIL EMBEDDED IN AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS IT MOVES SOUTH THROUGH SHERMAN COUNTY. VOJTESAK
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 Oct 7, 5:37 AM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 5:37 AM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 537 AM MDT (637 AM CDT) MON OCT 7 1996 UPDATED FOR SHWRS/TSTMS DUE TO OUTBREAK OVR NORTHEASTERN 1/3RD OF GLD CWA. GLD 88D SHOWING SOME CONVECTION AS WELL. SOME STRATIFORM PCPN FOLLOWS MAIN ACTIVITY. HOWEVER...POSN OF SHORTWAVE SHOULD PUSH MOST OF PCPN OUT OF FA BY LATE MORNING. THIS ACTIVITY MAY ALSO REINFORCE MSTR/UPSLOP FLOW OVR W PARTS OF CWA THIS MORNING TO KEEP THE CPIGS LOW. KPL
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.