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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1996, 5:26 PM MDT for Yuma County, Colorado. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 13, 1996, 5:26 PM MDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1996, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 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 23:25 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, 11.4 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
- 470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 132330 TORGLD COC125-140015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 526 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST COLORADO ...WESTERN YUMA COUNTY AT 525 PM MDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WRAY OR 5 MILES NORTH OF JOES MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS WARNING UPGRADES THE LAST SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN YUMA COUNTY. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... JOES BY 536 PM MDT KIRK BY 545 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! GONSOWSKI
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 13, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 2:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 236 PM MDT (336 PM CDT) SAT JUL 13 1996 ...TSTMS AND AMOUNT OF RAIN IS MAIN CHALLENGE WITH THIS FCST... MAIN CONCERN FOR CWA IS THIS EVE AND TONIGHT. CONVECTION FIRING UP OVR WY AND CO FOOTHILLS ATTM DUE TO AFTN HEATING AND UPSLOP FLOW. STRONG SHORTWAVE INDICATED MOVG INTO NE WY AND HI PLAINS WHICH SHOULD ENHANCE ACTIVITY NW OF FA THIS AFTN. ADAPS ALREADY SHOWING BOUYANT AMS OVR MUCH OF REGN THIS AFTN WITH NO CAP. TIMING OF SHORTWAVE (WHICH BOTH THE NGM/ETA VRY SIMILAR ON)...CONVERGENCE OF Q-VECTORS IN THE 700-300 LAYERS AND STRONG LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE SUGGESTS TSTMS WL MOVE OVR FA BY 00Z. FOLLOWING THE THETA-E RDG OVR THE HI PLAINS WOULD PUT SW NEBRASKA AND NW KANSAS IN FAVORED TSTM AREAS. LOOKING AT FZL AND WBZ FROM MORNING SOUNDINGS...HVY RAIN AND HAIL LOOK TO BE THE MAIN THREATS. ETA/NGM CONVECTIVE PCPN FIELDS AND UVVS OVR THE FA POINT TO ACTIVE NIGHT WITH WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY UP TIL 12Z SUNDAY...THEN DESCENDING MOTION FCST. UPSLOP FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE EARLY BUT FEEL SUBSIDENCE AND MIXING WL DIMINISH CLOUD COVER BY AFTN OVR MOST AREAS. NGM TIME-HGT CROSS XCTNS SHOWS MID LVL MSTR TO STAY OVR CWA THRU THE DAY SUNDAY. PREFER ETA MDL IN DRYING OUT AMS SUN/SUN NGT WITH BUILDING HGTS ALFT. REST OF FCST LOOKS FAIR WITH WARMING TEMPS. GLD 059/080/058/092 810 HLC 063/080/061/092 820 CBK 060/079/058/092 810 MCK 060/079/059/092 810 TRB 059/081/057/094 7-0 ITR 056/080/057/091 7-0 KPL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:06 PM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
COZ090>092-132105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 203 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9OO PM MDT FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES. REMEMBER... A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARVE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN EASTERN COLORADO SHOULD STAY ALERT AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MATHEWSON
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:14 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
COZ090>092-140120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 513 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR YUMA... KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES... STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ROLL INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. EXPECT LARGE HAIL...WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 60 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. VjOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 63 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.