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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 11:33 PM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. 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 6, 1996, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1996, 12:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 610 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
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 6, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 754 PM MDT (854 PM CDT) MON MAY 6 1996 LOW CLOUDS...FOG AND DRIZZLE APPEAR LOCKED IN TONITE ONCE AGAIN. TEMPS LOOK FINE GIVEN CURRENT READINGS AND MENTION OF OCNL DRIZZLE ACRS MUCH OF AREA APPEARS THE BEST BET THRUOUT THE NITE. TRWS SEEM POSSIBLE..BUT GIVEN THE STABILITY OF THE COOL LOW LAYERS AND LACK OF ORGANIZED MID/UPR LEVEL TRIGGER...HAVE SOME TIME TO WAIT AND SEE WHERE LOW-LEVEL JET SETS UP AND IF MID 50 DEW PTS CAN SLITHER ALG THE KS/CO BORDER. WILL MENTION SHOWERS BUT WIL CUT DOWN/REWORD TRW POPS TONITE ACRS NEB ZNS...ALL KS ZNS BUT 27>29/41/42 AND COLO ZNS 90/91 AND USE PERSISTENCE FORECAST FROM LAST NITE FOR MUCH OF THE BODY OF 1ST FCST PD. 21Z RUC EXPECTS THE FIRST REAL SHOT OF H7/H5 ENERGY TO SLIP OUT OF THE ROCKIES AFTER 09Z SO WILL KEEP TRWS IN BUT WIL WORD FOR DVLPG TOWARDS SUNRISE/AFTER MIDNIGHT ONCE AGAIN TONITE PER SELS 02Z DISCUSSION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 60 min |
| May 7, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 64 min |
| May 7, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| May 7, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 63 min |
| May 7, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| May 7, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| May 7, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 51 min |
| May 7, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 51 min |
| May 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 62 min |
| May 7, 1:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| May 7, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
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.