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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Goodland, KS

June 13, 1996Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 5:08 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 13, 1996, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1996, 5:55 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Grinnell, KS
Jun 13, 6:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Gove, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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: 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

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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 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 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 49 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
Jun 13, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	45 min
Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	47 min
Jun 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.