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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 4:45 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 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 22:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:00 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Yuma, CO | |
| Jul 7, 5:07 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Yuma, CO | |
| Jul 7, 5:12 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Eckley, 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 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 072246 TORGLD COC125-072345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 445 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ...NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY AT 443 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF WRAY OR 9 MILES NORTHWESTn OF ECKLEY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 16 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... ECKLEY BY 519 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! LUCAS/SKIPPER
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 Jul 7, 2:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:22 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 222 PM MDT (322 PM CDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 ...TIMING OF FROPA...LINGERING CLOUDS/PCPN CHCS APR TO BE FCST CHALLENGES THIS SHIFT... GOING FCST FOR TONITE LUKD FINE AND WENT W/50 POPS ALL BUT SRNMOST ZNS. 12HR THKNS DIFFL AND SFC PATRN SCENARIO OF MOISTURE/BNDRIES SCENARIO SIMILAR TO LAST EVE SO HAV SUM CONFIDENCE THAT NRN ZNS HAV GOOD CHC FOR PCPN. WITH FROPA NORTH...WUD EXPECT THINGS TO MOV CLOSER TO CWA AS NITE WEARS ON. BEYOND FIRST PD...MY FCST IS KEYED ON THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONT. BASED ON 84T...BAROCLINIC ZN SETTING UP TO NW AND BLV CONVECTION TONITE WIL ASSIST FROPA TO SLIP ACRS HIER TERRAIN THRU CO ZNS 90/91...NE ZNS 79/80...KS ZNS 1/2 BY/NR SUNRISE. REINFORCING NLY BNDRY LYR FLO TO FOLLOW AND BE A TAD GUSTY ABT 1/2 OF OF MONDAY...BUT SHUD DIMINISH AND HOPEFULLY CLR OUT THINGS. AM BETTING THIS NRLY FLO AND LWR DPS WIL SHUT OFF PCPN CHCS AND AS WINDS GO L/V MON NITE CLRG WIL DROP TEMPS INTO MID 50S MOST LOCALES. HAV LEFT RESIDUAL POPS IN KS ZNS 4/16/41/42 FOR LIFT AHD OF FROPA AND LINGERING CLOUDS IN CONVECTION OVRNITE. DONT THINK UPSLOP TO MAKE THINGS MESSY ALL DAY...SO IM IN GENRL AGREEMENT W/MOS NMBRS. BUT WILL GO A PT OR TWO LWR FOR MINS WITH CLRG AND A PT HIER FOR MAXES FOR SUM DAYTIME SUNSHINE. REGARDS TO TOP/GID... GLD 064/080/054/081 5-00 HLC 067/082/056/083 5200 CBK 066/081/057/082 5-00 MCK 062/080/057/082 50-0 TRB 065/083/054/0"84 420- ITR 063/078/054/080 5100 VOJTESAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
COZ090>092-080415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 312 PM MDT SUN JUL 7 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... A LINE OF STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF LIMON WILL BE MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 TO 20 MPH DURING THE NEXT 3 TO 6 HOURS. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES TOWARDS THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER. LARGE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL... AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 5:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.