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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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 26, 1996, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hoxie, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 262230 TORGLD KSC179-262330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 428 PM MDT (528 PM CDT) SUN MAY 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT (530 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY AT 527 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOXIE MOVING NORTH AT 28 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... HOXIE BY 540 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 64 min |
| May 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 66 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 65 min |
| May 26, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 64 min |
| May 26, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.