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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 4:48 PM CDT for Decatur County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 13, 1996, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1996, 5:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Decatur County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1097 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORR TO MINOR WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 232 PM MDT (332 PM CDT) THU JUN 13 1996 WIL SHY AWAY FRM DRY/WARM AVN RUN AND SIDE WITH ETA SOLN. WIL CONSIDER NGM PCPN GUID BUT FEEL AS DOES NMC THAT NGM IS WAY TOO FAST WITH ENTIRE SYSTEM. WHOLE FCST USES A MIX OF SVRL ASSUMPTIONS IN THE MODEL DATA. IMPULSE DVLPG ALG UPWIND SIDE OF RIDGE MEANS WET AND CLOUDY. MAIN ENERGY PEGGED OVR MUCH OF CWA XCPT FOR EXTRM ERN ZONES. WITH LGT WINDS...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE ANYWHERE FROM YUM TO MCK...TO TRB BEGINNING AFTN/TONITE THROUGH SATURDAY AFTN. WITH MUCH H7 AND H5 MOISTURE AND SELY SFC FLO FEEDING LO LVLS...TEMPS WILL BE COOLER OVR HIER TERRAIN OF NWRN CWA THAN SERN CWA. WENT GNRLY ABV NGM POPS FOR ALL FOUR PDS. COORD W/DDC...DEN AND OMA. GLD 063/085/060/084 4674 HLC 064/090/065/087 3465 CBK 064/086/061/085 4674 MCK 057/082/063/080 3465 TRB 062/089/062/088 3465 ITR 059/082/054/0Z78 5564 VOJTESAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 48 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.