Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 5:57 PM MDT for Sherman County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 22, 1996, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1059 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 222358 TORGLD KSC181-193-230045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 557 PM MDT (657 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT (745 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY ...SOUTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTY AT 556 PM MDT (656 PM CDT)...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EDSON MOVING EAST AT 17 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! VOJTESAK
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 Jun 22, 2:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:17 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 217 PM MDT (317 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996 ...BIG CHALLENGE IS AMOUNT OF RAIN THIS EVE/TONIGHT... ETA/NGM MODEL SHOWING WET FCST OVR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS FIRST PERIOD. FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS ATTM WITH MOST SFC WNDS NOW S-SE AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S. BIG TIME MSTR CONV OVR TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTN PER ADAPS. DONT EXPECT THIS TO MOVE MUCH AND WITH ADDITIONAL AFTN HEATING...TSTMS COULD GET GOING EARLY. ADAPS ALSO SHOWING VRY UNSTABLE AMS WITH CAP ALREADY ERODED. BOTTOM LINE...MONSOONAL MSTR CONTINUES TO STREAM NORTHWARD TONIGHT WITH IMPULSE RIDING OUT OF THE ROCKIES. ETA/NGM GRIDDED DATA FCST HI THETA-E OVR HI PLAINS WITH STRONG UPWARD VVELS THRU TONIGHT. ORIENTATION OF MONSOONAL CLDS AND DEEP MSTR FROM THIS MORNINGS SOUNDINGS POINT TO SOME POSSIBLE HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS EVE. TIMING HAS SHWRS/TSTMS CONTINUING INTO THE LATE NGT HRS...MAINLY OVR NE PARTS OF CWA. HGTS BUILD AGAIN SUN/SUN NGT CUTTING OFF MSTR FROM SW AS DRIER AIR WL SLOWLY WORK ITS WAY IN. CHC OF FOG/STRATUS SUN NGT AND EARLY MON MORNING AS ETA CROSS XCTNS SHOW EASTERLY SFC FLOW OVR MOIST GROUND. THCKNSS PATTERN SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE NXT FEW DAYS. WITH MORE SUNSHINE EXPECTED...HIGH TEMPS SHOULD BE CLOSE TO NGM MOS. GLD 061/085/058/087 711 HLC 066/085/061/089 612 CBK 063/086/061/087 711 MCK 064/084/059/086 711 TRB 061/087/059/088 711 ITR 058/084/056/084 711b KPL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:59 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001-002-013-014-027-028-041-042-NEZ079-080-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 257 PM MDT (357 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EASTCENTRAL COLORADO...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...WESTCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM MDT...10 PM CDT... AT 3 PM MDT...4 PM CDT GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTCENTRAL COLORADO FROM NEAR YUMA COLORADO TO KIT CARSON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT INB THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...LIE DOWN IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. RFF
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-230335-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
333 PM MDT (433 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)...
THERE ARE TWO TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT THAT INCLUDE NORTHWEST
KANSAS...NORTHEAST COLORADO...AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. WATCH NUMBER
670 COVERS WESTERN AREAS...AND NUMBER 671 COVER EASTERN AREAS. BOTH
ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT).
THE WATCHES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN EASTERN COLORADO... YUMA...KIT CARSON...CHEYENNE
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...RED WILLOW
IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...
SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN...GRAHAM...WALLACE
LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...WICHITA
A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. IF A STORM APPROACHES
YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO AND TO YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...LIE DOWN IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
STAVISHSpecial weather statement, Jun 22, 5:12 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-230015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 511 PM MDT (611 PM CDT) SAT JUN 22 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FORECAST AREA UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)... THE FIRST WAVE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TRACKING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. FOR THE MOST PART...THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND SOME PEA-SIZED HAIL. AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH EASTERN COLORADO...SOME 3/4-INCH HAIL BRIEFLY FELL NEAR STRATTON. HOWEVER...THE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE IMPRESSIVE...WITH 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN LESS THAN AN HOUR IN THE VICINITY OF STRATTON LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT OF THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE FROM HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING OVER AREAS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS ALREADY SATURATED BY PRECIPITATION DURING THE PAST WEEK. HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE AND TORNADIC STORMS CONTINUES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 64 min |
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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.