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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Goodland, KS

May 31, 1996Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 6:16 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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 31, 1996, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1996, 7:20 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Wichita County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 31, 6:35 PM CDT	Hail 1	Leoti, KS
May 31, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Horace, 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -338 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 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.

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 31, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-312240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
238 PM MDT (338 PM CDT) FRI MAY 31 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME
EAST CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSAS PLUS MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL
COLORADO THROUGH 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT).  NA TORNADO WATCH MEANS
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES TO FORM.

IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES OVER YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	46 min
May 31, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	49 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	65 min
May 31, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	63 min
May 31, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Greeley	61 min
May 30, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	61 min
May 30, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Yuma	64 min
May 30, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	47 min
May 30, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	62 min
May 31, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	64 min
May 31, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	49 min
May 30, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	46 min
May 31, 1:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	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.