Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1996, 11:05 PM CDT for Graham County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 15, 1996, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 12:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Graham County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 15, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Morland, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 798 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 160406 TORGLD KSC065-179-160510- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1005 PM MDT (1105 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1210 AM CDT (1110 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN GRAHAM COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY AT 1103 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOXIE OR 4 MILES NORTH OF TASCO MOVING EAST AT 26 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND.... STUDLEY BY 1121 PM CDT MORLAND BY 1130 PM CDT PENOKEE BY 1142 PM CDT HILL CITY BY 1157 PM CDT 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 Jul 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 212 PM MDT (312 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 SHRT TERM DISCUSSION: LOOKS LIKE POSSIBLE MCS FORMATION ACROSS NRN PTN OF THE CWA IS THE MN CHALLENGE TNGT. PREFER TDAS ETA THRU 24 HRS...BUT NO GRIDDED DATA WAS AVAILABLE FM THIS MODEL ATTM. HWVR...ETA AFOS GRAPHICS THRU TNGT INDC ETA TO BE THE ONLY MODEL FAIRLY CNSTNT WITH HANDLING OF SHRT WV CURRENTLY INDCD NEAR WHERE WY...UTAH AND CO MEET. ETA CONTS TREND OF PAST COUPLE OF RUNS OF TAKING THIS SHRT WV ACROSS THE NRN PTN OF THE CWA. WITH INCRNG DWPNTS THIS EVE ACROSS THE CWA AS SFC WNDS BECOME SE AHEAD OF DVLPG LEE-SIDE SFC TROF...FEEL TSTM DVLPMT IS A GD BET...SPCLY N UNDER UPR DYNAMICS. HV WEIGHTED HIER POPS N ACCORDINGLY. CAPES OF 3000 TO 3500 AND SFC-3KM HELICITIES OF ABT 200 FM LBF MODIFIED MORNING SOUNDING...STRONGLY HINT AT SVR TSTMS TNGT. ALTHOUGH...INITIAL DVLPMT MAY BE SUPERCELL...DEVELOPING LLJT AND STRONG DRCTNL SHEAR IN THE LOWEST 3KM SUGGEST MCS...WITH POSSIBLE BOW ECHO EVOLUTION...SPCLY FOR NE COUNTIES. H7 +10 TO +12 THERMAL RIBBON INDCS A NW-SE MOTION OF SVR STMS AND COMPLEX. OTRW...TRIED TO TM CLDS AND WNDS TNGT WITH ESTIMATED MOVEMENT OF TSTMS AND LEE-SIDE TROF. OTRW...ACCEPTED FWC LOWS. ATTM...FEEL FOG IS NOT LKLY AS SFC WNDS SHOULD GAIN A WRLY COMPONENT BEHIND THE COMPLEX. SEE CCF PTN FOR DETAILS. LONG TERM DISCUSSION: NO ETA DATA BEYOND 24 HRS AND ONLY HAD NGM GRIDDED DATA TO LOOK AT. SEEMS MAIN PROBLEM IS FOLLOWING AND TIMING OF EACH S/WV IN FLOW ALF. THE MORE ZONAL FCST PATTERN LEAVES THE HI PLAINS OPEN FOR CONVECTION. NGM/AVN SIMILAR WITH LEE-SIDE TROF OVR FA BUT DIFFER ON UPPER LVL FEATURES THRU TUESDAY NGT. NGM STILL TRYING TO BRING MORE ENERGY IN FROM THE SW LATER TUE WITH 500MB DIFFLUENT FLOW OVR HI PLAINS. VVELS NOT VRY IMPRESSIVE BUT RISING MOTION OVR LEE TROF...STRONG SFC HEATING AND WEAK PERTUBATIONS ALF SHOULD GENERATE WIDELY SCT TO SCT TSTMS. COULD BE MORE OF A NOCTURNAL EVENT JUST E OF CWA DEPENDING ON TIMING. THCKNSS VALUES AND 850 TEMPS POINT TO VRY WARM DAYS AHEAD. GLD 063/093/063/094 412 HLC 068/094/068/096 4-2 CBK 065/094/064/094 412 MCK 066/093/066/095 5-2 TRB " 064/095/064/095 312 ITR 063/091/061/093 412 VJN/KPL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
COZ090>092-152345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM JULESBURG TO LIMON....AND ARE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO YUMA...KIT CARSON AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. 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 MOVtE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VOJTESAK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
COZ090>092-152345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORR TO HEADING STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 442 PM MDT MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM JULESBURG TO LIMON....AND ARE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO YUMA...KIT CARSON AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. VOJTESAK
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-160550- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 550 PM MDT (650 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT (MIDNIGHT MDT)... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLAR IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 7:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-160550- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 645 PM MDT (750 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT (MIDNIGHT MDT) FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINS MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE FOR SOME LOCALIZE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEAN TORNADOS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBL<E. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM CELLER. JENNER
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 10:07 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
COZ092-091-090-NEZ079-080-081-160400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 904 PM MDT (1004 PM CDT) MON JUL 15 1996 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN COLORADO HAS EXPIRED... ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA INCLUDING DUNDY... HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THESE AREAS AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. SKIPPERj
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 48 min |
| Jul 15, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.