Alert archive / Colorado / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1996, 6:26 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 24, 1996, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1996, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, CO
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Cheyenne Wells, CO |
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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 250027 TORGLD COC017-250115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 626 PM MDT MON JUN 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO ...EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY COLORADO AT 625 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE WELLS MOVING NORTH AT 17 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... CHEYENNE WELLS BY 640 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! BULLER x
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 24, 2:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 PM MDT (311 PM CDT) MON JUN 24 1996 SHORT TERM: MDLS CONTINUE TO SHOW UNTABLE AMS OVR CWA THRU TONIGHT WITH PLENTY OF MSTR. NOSE OF LLJ LOOKS TO BE FURTHER N WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE RIDING OVR IT THRU THE NGT. WITH VIRTUALLY NO CAP COMBINED WITH SFC HEATING AND LIFT OVR BNDRY SHOULD BE PLENTY OF CONVECTION THRU THE EVE. NGM GRIDDED DATA PUTS HIEST CONVECTIVE PCPN ALG AND JUST E OF CWA THRU 12Z TUE. ALSO LOOKS TO BE UNSTABLE ENUF THAT IT WL BE BREEZY OVR MOST AREAS TONIGHT INTO TUE MORNING. ALMOST RCMD TO ISSUE FFA FOR E PARTS OF CWA FOR TONIGHT. RIVERS ALREADY RUNNING HIGH AND SOILS SATURATED. MDLS DIFFER ON QPF IN THESE AREAS INTO TONIGHT. HOWEVER...BASED ON CURRENT SAT PICS ...BREAK IN PCPN AND DIFFERING MDL QPF WL LET IT REST FOR NOW. KPL LONG TERM: LEE TROF TO REMAIN IN THE VCNTY THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH CONTIUNING H7 WAA. ETA FCSTS +16 OVH GLD BY 48HRS. AS WE REMAIN JUST UNDER THE BUILDING H5 RIDGE...SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK FROM SW TO NE FM CENTRAL CO INTO WRN NE. LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY SIG SHRT WV TO GIVE US TROUBLE WILL BE TMRW NGHT. AT THAT TIME...MDLS INDICATE STG SLY H8 JET DVLPNG IN THTE RIDGE. H7 TEMPS VERY WARM AT THAT TIME...BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SOURCE WILL BE GOOD...AND CONSIDERING THE PATTERN OVER LAST FEW DAYS...20 PERCENT POPS WELL WARRANTED. WENT BREEZY ON WED AHEAD OF LEE TROF WITH MOS INDICATING GOOD WIND SPEEDS. FAN GUID CONTS TO LOOK TOO WARM...AND FELT PRETTY GOOD ABOUT STICKING CLOSE TO MOS/FMR VALUES. STAVISH GLD 062/088/063/095 402 HLC 067/090/067/097 502 CBK 064/089/065/095 402 MCK 065/087/066/096 502 TRB 063/091/064/098 302 ITR 061/086/061/096 302
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
COZ090>092-242255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 249 PM MDT MON JUN 24 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHEYENNE...KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THESE COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. KPL p
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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.