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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Goodland, KS

June 6, 1996Red Willow County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 3:25 AM CDT for Red Willow County, Nebraska. It was in force for 10 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: Jun 6, 1996, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 2118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 Jun 6, 3:22 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:22 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
222 AM MDT (322 AM CDT) THU JUN 6 1996

HAVE WORDED ZONES FOR PCPN SHIELD MOVG SLOLY SWD ALONG NE/KS BORDER.
FIRST SHOT OF NORTHERLY OUTFLOW CUD TOUCH A FEW RWS ALG 2ND TIER OF
KS ZNS 13>15 THIS MRNG. FCST HAS GONE WITH INCRG H7 MOISTURE GENRLY
N OF I-70 THRU EARLY FRI MRNG. WENT WELL BLO GUID FOR HIGHS IN NE
ZNS AND UPR TIER OF KS ZNS PER OUTFLOW BOUNDARY/CLOUDS AND CAA
WORKING IN TDY WITH N FLO. THESE BOUNDARIES WIL MAKE TEMPS CONSDBLY
COOLER THAN PREV FCSTS HAD GOING THROUGH TONITE.

WIL KEEP TORNADO WATCH HEADLINE IN KS ZNS 3/4/15/16 TIL 12Z

GLD  075/049/077 200  HLC 070/050/075 31-
CBK  075/049/077 200  MCK 069/047/075 610
TRB  079/051/084 000  ITR 084/053/073 010

VOJTESAK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 9:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
100 AM MDT (200 AM CDT) THU JUN 6 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA COUNTY
COLORADO ALONG WITH DUNDY AND HITCHCOCK COUNTIES NEBRASKA...
...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR RED WILLOW COUNTY NEBRASKA AS WELL
AS DECATUR...NORTON...SHERIDAN AND GRAHAM COUNTIES KANSAS...

GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR STILL SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH.  EARLIER...A VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RED WILLOW COUNTY JUST EAST OF
MCCOOK NEBRASKA.

ANY ADDITIONAL STORMS TONIGHT COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...
WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.  AS A RESULT...ALL
CURRENT WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

KPL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	64 min
Jun 6, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	62 min
Jun 6, 4:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur	46 min
Jun 6, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	66 min
Jun 6, 4:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	64 min
Jun 6, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	78 min
Jun 6, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	30 min
Jun 6, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.