Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 8:47 PM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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, 9:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Marienthal, KS | |
| Jul 7, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Marienthal, KS | |
| Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Marienthal, KS | |
| Jul 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Lydia, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 080147 TORGLD KSC203-080250- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 747 PM MDT (847 PM CDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM CDT (850 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...WICHITA COUNTY AT 845 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEOTI OR 15 MILES NORTH OF SELKIRK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 26 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR.... LEOTI AROUND 925 PM CDT MARIENTHAL AROUND 930 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! SKIPPER/ENTWISTLE
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, 3:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 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, 4:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 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
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
KSZ001-002-003-004-013-014-015-016-027-028-029-041-042-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 451 PM MDT (551 PM CDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST KANSA SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE ANY TIME THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE AFTER MID EVENING WHEN A LINE OF STORMS MOVES IN FROM COLORADO. BESIDES DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL...THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT OF FLOODING RAINS FROM THIS EVENINGS STORMS. JJK
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
NEZ079-080-081-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 455 PM MDT (555 PM CDT) SUN JUL 7 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM MDT (MIDNIGHT CDT)... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE ANY TIME THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE AFTER MID EVENING WHEN A LINE OF STORMS MOVES IN FROM COLORADO. BESIDES DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL...THERE WILL ALSO BE A THREAT OF FLOODING RAINS FROM THIS EVENINGS STORMS. JJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 9:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Gove | 6 hr |
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.