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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Goodland, KS

May 4, 1996Graham County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 12:01 AM CDT for Graham 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: May 4, 1996, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1996, 1:05 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Graham County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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
May 4, 12:14 AM CDT	Hail 1	Hill City, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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 May 3, 8:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 8:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
737 PM MDT (837 PM CDT) FRI MAY 3 1996

WILL REWORD LATE PM PKG FOR CLOUDS...WINDS AND PCPN CHCS PER LATEST
AVBL DATA.

LOOKING AT 21Z RUC...UPSTREAM H7/H5 FLOW IS INCREASING AND A WEAK H7
WAVE DEVELOPING AFTER 00Z IN SWRN KS COULD STIR UP A FEW MORE
UNANTICIPATED SHOWERS ACROSS CWA AND MORE CLOUD COVER THAN PREVIOUS
FCST HAS GOING. NORTHEAST WINDS REMAIN GUSTY AND WITH TRENDS IN
RUC... THINKING IS THAT SYSTEM IS BEGINNING TO SHOW SIGNS OF MORE
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE LOWEST LAYERS TO THE EAST AND SOUTH
OF MOST OF THE CWA. SFC OBS AND AFOS STREAMLINE/CAP GRAPHICS SHOW
FAVORABLE CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY ACRS EXTREME SERN CWA ZNS 42
AND 29. WITH DOWNSTREAM CAP WEAK TO NIL ACROSS SERN 1/4 OF KS... WILL
KEEP SRN/ERNMOST ZONES IN/OUT OF SHRWS MORE THAN JUST THIS EVENING
AS 50+ DP MOISTURE POURS SWWD INTO DEVELOPING SFC SYSTEM FROM NORTH
CENTRAL KS. THINK TRW THREAT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA IS DECREASING
RAPIDLY WITH THIS LATE AFTN DIURNAL SCENARIO ENDING. BUT TRW
POSSIBILITY STILL LOOKS BEST ACRS KS 42/29 AND POSSIBLY 4/16.

COORD W/GID ON PCPN TYPE/CHCS TONITE IN KS ZNS 4/16

VOJTESAK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 3, 11:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

KSZ003-004-015-016-029-040500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
958 PM MDT (1058 PM CDT) FRI MAY 3 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5AM CDT FOR
PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...

THE COUNTIES OF GOVE...SHERIDAN...DECATUR...NORTON...AND GRAHAM
ARE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5AM CDT. A LINE OF
RAPIDLY-DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THESE COUNTIES
DURING THE NEXT 2 HOURS. AT 955 CDT)... THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM JUST
SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG TO JUST WEST OF QUINTER. THE LINE WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL TO INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. WIND GUSTS APPROACHING 60 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
THE BULK OF THE SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MAINLY TO THE EAST OF THE
FORECAST AREA...BUT BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS.

 IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING IMMEDIATELY IF
A STORM APPROACHES.  MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED
VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.  STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.

VOJTESAK

&

Special weather statement, May 3, 11:52 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	64 min
May 3, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	63 min
May 4, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	61 min
May 4, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.