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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Goodland, KS

May 30, 1996Yuma County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 10:13 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 62 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 30, 1996, 10:13 PM MDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Yuma County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 930 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 30, 8:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 8:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 5:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

COZ090>092-310025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
523 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996

...STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO ENTER THE
EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE
UNTIL 645 PM...

AT 525 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM EXTENDS FROM
AROYA TO FLAGLER TO JUST WEST OF WRAY. THE STRONGEST CELL IS JUST
WEST OF AROYA AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WILD HORSE IN THE NEXT 15
MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND IS
MOVING CLOSER TO THE BORDER OF WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY. SEVERE
WEATHER IS IMMINENT AND EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND
LARGE HAIL DURING MUCH OF THE EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS EASTERN
COLORADO.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON..AND
CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
O^CCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

VOJTESAK

Special weather statement, May 30, 5:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

COZ090>092-310025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORR TO WORDING...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
523 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996

...STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO ENTER THE
EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE
UNTIL 645 PM...

AT 525 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM
AROYA TO FLAGLER TO JUST WEST OF WRAY. THE STRONGEST CELL IS JUST
WEST OF AROYA AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WILD HORSE IN THE NEXT 15
MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND IS
MOVING CLOSER TO THE BORDER OF WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY. SEVERE

WEATHER IS IMMINENT AND EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND
COLORADO.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON..AND
CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

STdAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

VOJTESAK

Special weather statement, May 30, 8:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 9:19 PM MDT, 54 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 31, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	46 min
May 31, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	49 min
May 31, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	64 min
May 31, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	65 min
May 31, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	63 min
May 31, 5:54 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	61 min
May 30, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	61 min
May 30, 7:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 min
May 30, 10:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	47 min
May 31, 2:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 min
May 31, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	49 min
May 30, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	46 min
May 31, 12:39 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	61 min

Nearby

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