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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 10, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1996, 10:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 110225 TORGLD KSC153-110310- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 825 PM MDT (925 PM CDT) SAT AUG 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1010 PM CDT (910 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ...RAWLINS COUNTY AT 919 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES EAST OF OBERLIN MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. THE TOWN OF KANONA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DEVELOPING TORNADO. TAKE COVER ! THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RAWLINS COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! SKIPPER
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 10, 3:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:46 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 246 PM MDT (346 PM CDT) SAT AUG 10 1996 FCST DISC: ...MAIN FCST PROBLEM IS TRW POPS TNGT AND FOG DVLPMNT IN AM... MODIFIED SOUNDINGS HAVE REVEALED CAPES RANGING BETWEEN 1K AND 2K J/KG ACROSS THE AREA AND PROFILERS SHOW MAINLY NLY FLOW TO UPPER LAYERS OF THE ATMOS. UPPER AIR DATA FROM THIS MORNING REVEALED SHORT WAVE AT H3 MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE CWA TDY...OTHERWISE DRYING ELSEWHERE WITH SOME CAA IN UPR LVLS. FEEL THAT DESTABILIZING ATMOS IS CONDUCIVE TO SOME TRW...BUT MAINLY CLOSE TO THE ROCKIES. STORM MOVEMENT SHOULD HAVE A GOOD SOUTHERLY COMPONENT ALONG THCKNESS GRADIENT...SO MAIN THREAT FOR US I BELIEVE WILL BE ONLY OVER ERN CO AND SW NE ZONES FM STORMS THAT FORM IN ERN WY AND NORTH-CEN CO. MESO-ETA LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE FIELDS ALSO HINT AT SOMETHING DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH-CEN KS/CO BORDER AREA ALONG SFC MOISTURE GRADIENT AND XTNDG NE TO OUR ERN ZONES. FOR THIS REASON...AS WELL AS 25 PERCENT HLC POPS...I HAVE INCLUDED CHANCES IN OUR FAR SRN AND ERN COUNTIES. GOOD SUBSIDENCE IN MOST AREA TSCT/S FROM GRIDDED ETA INDICATE GOOD SUBSIDENCE OVRNGT...AND FEEL RADIATIONAL COOLING WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO FALL TO NEAR DWPT VALUES. HAVE INCLUDED MENTION IN MOST ZONES. FOR OUT PERIODS...WITH SFC HIGH AND DOMINANT NORTHERLY FLOW TO EVOLVE...I FELT THAT KNOCKING MOS HIGHS DOWN A BIT WAS WARRANTED. WITH THINGS DRYING OUT AS MODELS INDICATED...WE SHUD WARM UP WELL...BUT I DON/T FEEL ANYTHING HIGHER THAN MID 90S IS IN STORE. GLD 056/088/058/095 -00 HLC 060/086/060/093 200 CBK 057/088/059/094 -00 MCK 059/087/059/093 200 TRB 059/090/059/097 100 ITR 055/089/057/094 100 STAVISH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 8:55 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-110700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 755 PM MDT (855 PM CDT) SAT AUG 10 1996 ...TORNADO WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED... TWO TORNADO WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 939 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT) AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA: DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...RED WILLOW TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 940 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 AM CDT) AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN...GRAHAM... WALLACE...LOGAN...GOVE...GREELEY...WICHITA REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEA THER RADIO...AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. STAVISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 34 min |
| Aug 10, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 51 min |
| Aug 10, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 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.