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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 7:06 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 64 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 30, 1996, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 8:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yuma County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 310108 TORGLD COC125-310210- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 706 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 810 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN YUMA COUNTY AT 705 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 31 MILES WEST OF WRAY OR 5 MILES WEST OF YUMA. MOVEMENT IS NEARLY STATIONARY. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... YUMA BY 735 PM MDT A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! KPL
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 30, 2:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 2:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 210 PM MDT (310 PM CDT) THU MAY 30 1996 ...FCST CHALLENGE IS THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THIS EVE INTO FRIDAY... ...SHORT TERM... WEAK VORT MAX SPINNING OVR THE HI PLAINS AND LLJ COMBINED TO PRODUCE A FEW TSTMS OVR GLD CWA THIS MORNING. GOOD CLRNG/NVA INDICATED BY VIS SATELLITE BEHIND SHORTWAVE THIS AFTN. GOOD HEATING COMBINED WITH INCREASING MSTR CONVERGENCE OVR KS/CO BORDER WL HELP DESTABILIZE AMS MORE LATER THIS AFTN AND EVE. ADAPS ALSO POINTS TO CAP ERODING OVR REGN THIS AFTN WITH NEG LIS ALFT. MID LVL THERMAL RIDGE WAS JUST W OF CWA THIS MORNING. 12Z ETA INITIALIZATION SHOWED WARM POOL ALOFT OVR E COLO WITH DEN AT +10C. THIS RIDGE WL BE REPLACED BY TROUGH THIS EVE/TONIGHT. FEEL AS TROUGH APPROACHES HI PLAINS TSTMS WL GET GOING. NEW 94O CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NOW PUTS MODERATE RISK OVR NE COLO TO KS BORDER INTO TONIGHT. MODIFIED SOUNDING FROM LBF INDICATES A CAPE OF AROUND 2000 J/KG AND LI OF -9C. DDC NOT AS IMPRESSIVE WITH CAPE BUT GOOD SHEAR PROFILE. WITH ALL OF THIS IN MIND...SEVERE WX COULD OCCUR OVR A LARGE AREA THIS EVE AND COULD CONTINUE OVR E PARTS OF CWA THRU TNGT AS NGM KEEPS 850-500 LIS AROUND -4 AND CONTINUING UPSLOPE FLOW. MDLS SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE WITH MAINTAINING A MOIST SELY FLOW THRU FRIDAY MORNING WITH LOW CLDS/FOG REDEVELOPING. LYNOTT ...LONG TERM... NO REAL H5 PVA TO SPEAK OF THRU SATURDAY...AND MOST WX WILL BE THE RESULT OF UPPER DIFLUENCE COMBINED WITH GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND WAA. HAVE RELIED MOSTLY ON THE ETA MODEL AS IT PICKED UP PRETTY WELL ON UPPER LEVEL FEATURES THIS MORN. H8 TROF AND MOIST SE WINDS TO REMAIN IN PLACE THRU 36HRS...AFTER WHICH TIME FLOW WILL BECOME NW WITH CAA. AT THAT TIME DEEP H5 TROF BASE POSITIONS OVHD AND UPR FLOW GOES ZONAL WITH DRY SFC HIGH SETTING UP FOR THE WEEKEND. UNTIL THEN WX FRI NGT SHUD LOOK ALOT LIKE TONITE WITH GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND SCT TRW DEVLPNG AHEAD OF COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NW. FRH68 GIVES DDC OVER AN INCH OF RAIN FRI NGT WITH VRY STG VV/S...BUT HARDLY ANYTHING TO LBF INDCTG THAT MOST PRECIP WILL FALL E AND SOUTH OF TRI STATE REGION. ETA QPFS LOOK OVERDONE WITH MUCH OF KS SEEING >.25 IN BY SAT MORN...ALTHOUGH LOOK GOOD AS FAR AS PRECIP COVERAGE. A LOOK AT LAST NGTS GRIDDED ETA SHOWED BEST LOW LYR CONVERGENT Q OVR ERN CO AND WRN KS BY FRI NGT. THIS COMBINED WITH I8L -4 CVG...MAKES ME FEEL PRETTY GOOD ABOUT POPS ATTM. STUCK FAIR<LY CLOSE TO MOS TEMPS FOR HIGHS/LOWS ON FRI...AND FAN GUID HIGHS FOR SAT. STAVISH GLD 052/073/050/078 623 HLC 055/075/055/079 723 CBK 052/075/052/078 623 MCK 054/074/050/078 723 TRB 054/080/056/080 623 ITR 051/075/049/077 623 .END
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 2:27 PM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
COZ090>092-302330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 226 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF FAR EASTERN COLORADO. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN THESE AREAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND EVEN TORNADOES COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. ADVANCE PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL DURING A TORNADO WATCH. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NO|AA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. LYNOTT
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
COZ090>092-310025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 523 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 ...STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO ENTER THE EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE UNTIL 645 PM... AT 525 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM EXTENDS FROM AROYA TO FLAGLER TO JUST WEST OF WRAY. THE STRONGEST CELL IS JUST WEST OF AROYA AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WILD HORSE IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND IS MOVING CLOSER TO THE BORDER OF WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY. SEVERE WEATHER IS IMMINENT AND EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LARGE HAIL DURING MUCH OF THE EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON..AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND O^CCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
COZ090>092-310025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORR TO WORDING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 523 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996 ...STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO ENTER THE EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE UNTIL 645 PM... AT 525 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM AROYA TO FLAGLER TO JUST WEST OF WRAY. THE STRONGEST CELL IS JUST WEST OF AROYA AND EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WILD HORSE IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AND IS MOVING CLOSER TO THE BORDER OF WEST CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY. SEVERE WEATHER IS IMMINENT AND EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND COLORADO. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON..AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. STdAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 61 min |
| May 30, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| May 30, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 62 min |
| May 31, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| May 31, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 49 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.