Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 58, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 1996, 11:39 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 6, 1996, 11:39 PM MDT (05:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 12:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 51 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 05:48 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 7, 12:00 AM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Kanorado, 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, 5.7 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 6, 8:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 8:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 848 PM MDT (948 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 IN PAST 15 MINUTES...CONVECTION IS BACK BUILDING INTO NEBR ZN 80 AND KS ZN 1 ALONG FRONT ACRS ERN CO. THEREFORE...WILL NOT DROP ANY ZONES IN WATCH AREA. VOJTESAK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:57 PM MDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-NEZ080-081-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 556 PM MDT (656 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT)... A LINE OF STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. EXPECT SOME OF THE CELLS IN THIS LINE OF STORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIZO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. VOJTESAK
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-070905- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1004 PM MDT (1104 PM CDT) TUE AUG 6 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3 AM MDT (4 AM CDT)... THIS THUNDERSTORM WATCH...WEATHER WATCH 929...REPLACES THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS POSTED FOR EARLY THIS EVENING. A SLOW-MOVING COLD FRONT IS ALIGNED ALONG A MCCOOK TO GOODLAND LINE. STRONG-TO-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO BACK BUILD TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HOURS INTO HITCHCOCK COUNTY NEBRASKA AND CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES OVER RAWLINS AND STRONG STORMS CONTINUE OVER RED WILLOW AND DECATUR COUNTIES. LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE LIKELY OVER THE WATCH AREA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING ST>ORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. VOJTESAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 6:07 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 6:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| Aug 6, 8:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 11:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 12:38 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 10:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 11:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 11:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.