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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Goodland, KS

August 2, 1996Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 2, 1996, 7:53 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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: Aug 2, 1996, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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
Aug 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Grinnell, KS
Aug 2, 8:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Campus, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 7.9
Supercell composite: 29.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 030054
TORGLD
KSC063-030155-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
653 PM MDT (753 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 PM CDT (755 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...WESTERN GOVE COUNTY
 
AT 752 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER
RADAR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OAKLEY OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRINNELL
MOVING SOUTH AT 14 MPH. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN
OVER RURAL AREAS.

THIS WARNING UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN
EFFECT FOR GOVE COUNTY.
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

JJK

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 Aug 2, 2:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
106 PM MDT (206 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996

SHRT TERM:  ONLY CONCERN TNGT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF TSTMS.  ETA
IS MUCH STGR WITH DVLPG AN IMPL OVNGT CURRENTLY OVR WRN WY.
NGM IS MUCH WKER WITH THIS SYS BY 12Z SAT.  LOOKING AT GRIDDED
DATA...NEITHER THE ETA OR NGM INDCD MUCH IN THE WAY OF MID LVL
Q-VEC CNVRG OR LLVL MOISTURE CNVRG ACRS OUR CWA OVNGT.  FURTHERMORE
...H7 TEMPS ARE PROGD TO BE ON THE RISE BGNG THIS AFT. ONE FACTOR
FAVORABLE FOR TSTM ACTVTY THIS EVE IS VERY HI DWPNTS E OF A FAIRLY
SHARP DRY LN WHICH WL LKLY RESIDE NEAR THE CO/KS BDR. MODIFIED CAPES
FM SHARP 12Z SOUNDINGS ARE 3500+ SO SVR STMS PSBL.  IF DAYTIME
HEATING BREAKS THRU CAP LTR THIS EVE...ENOUGH UPR FORCING MAY OCR
OVR THE CWA TNGT WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE LLJ TO KEEP TSTMS GOING
INTO THE ERN PTN OF THE CWA.  WL GO SLIGHTLY ABV FWC GUIDANCE POPS
ACRS ALL PTNS OF THE CWA TNGT. GVN MORE WRLY SFC COMPONENT WNDS
PROGD BY BOTH THE NGM/ETA LTR TNGT...FEEL FOG WL NOT BE A MAJ
PROBLEM AND WL ONLY MENTION PATCHY FOG PSBL FOR ERN NW KS AND RED
WILLOW COUNTY NE.

LONG TERM:  INCRNG H7 AND H8 TEMPS AND LLVL WRLY COMP WNDS SHOULD
BRING HOTTER AND SOMEWHAT DRIER WX ON SAT INTO SUN ACRS THE CWA.
ETA/AVN H8 TEMPS OF +35 FOR SUN 00Z LOOK TOO WRM GVN WET GND AND
LLVL MOISTURE AVAILABILTY...HWVR...EVEN NGM H8 TEMP IS ARND +30 DEG
C...SO HI TEMPS WELL INTO THE 90S CWA WIDE SEEM IN ORDER.  GVN
DRIER AIR AND THE LACK OF DEFINED UPR AIR SUPPORT THRU PD 3...WL
NOT MENTION POPS BEYOND TIL PD 4 WHEN THE NXT COLD FNT MOVING SE FM
THE NRN ROCKIES MOVES INTO THE CWA.  TIMING OF FNT BY ETA/NGM LOOKS
A LTL FAST COMPARED TO THE AVN...BUT FEEL A DEEP UPR LVL TROF OVR
THE NRN ROCKIES SHOULD ALLOW SFC HI TO BLD OVR THE PAC NW GREATER
THAN PROGD BY SHRT RANGE MODELS ATTM...ALLOWING FOR A RLTVLY ERL
COLD FNTL PSG. FWC TEMPS LOOK GD...XCP PERHAPS A TAD LOW FOR SE
COUNTIES ON SUN WHERE FNTL PSG WL LKLY BE IN THE ERLY A|FT
HRS...ALLOWIG TEMPS TO RISE INTO THE MID 90S.  SEE CCF PTN FOR
TEMP AND POP DETAILS.

GLD 65/95/65/92 211    HLC 68/94/69/96 211
CBK 66/95/67/94 211    MCK 66/95/67/93 211
TRB 65/96/65/93 211    ITR 64/96/63/94 211

VJN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-022255-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
252 PM MDT (352 PM CDT) FRI AUG 2 1996

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT) FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA AND MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS...

SCATTERED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR THIS
EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT FORM ARE LIKELY TO BE EXTREMELY STRONG DUE
TO THE RECENT WARM HUMID CONDITIONS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

JJK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	47 min
Aug 2, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	47 min
Aug 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	63 min
Aug 2, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	66 min
Aug 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	62 min
Aug 2, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	65 min
Aug 2, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	61 min
Aug 2, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	66 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.