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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Goodland, KS

May 24, 1996Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 5:56 PM MDT for Wallace 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
May 24, 1996, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
49 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 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
May 24, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
May 24, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas65 min
May 23, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma35 min
May 23, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma35 min

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.