Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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 25, 1996, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 4:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 25, 4:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Goodland, KS | |
| Jul 25, 4:20 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Goodland, 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 252203 TORGLD KSC181-252235- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 403 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 435 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...SOUTHERN SHERMAN COUNTY AT 400 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 8 MILES SOUTH OF GOODLAND NEAR SMOKY GARDENS PARK. T`HE TORNADO WAS UPROOTING TREES. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. 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! MENTZER &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 62 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.