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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1996, 7:23 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 2, 1996, 7:23 PM MDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1996, 7:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greeley County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Tribune, 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 2978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 030123 TORGLD KSC071-030155- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 723 PM MDT MON SEP 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND KS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 755 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ...CENTRAL GREELEY COUNTY AT 722 PM MDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRIBUNE OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF HORACE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 17 MPH. AT PRESENT MOVEMENT THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF.... HORACE AT APPROXIMATELY 741 PM MDT TRIBUNE AT APPROXIMATELY 742 PM MDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR *A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! BARKER
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 Sep 2, 7:15 PM MDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 7:15 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 715 PM MDT (815 PM CDT) MON SEP 2 1996 WILL UPDATE FOR WATCH FOR KS ZNS. GLD 062/087/063/090 20- HLC 065/089/064/092 200 CB K 063/087/063/090 2-- MCK 083/061/085/062 0-1 TRB 062/088/062/091 40- ITR 059/090/060/092 10- BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 63 min |
| Sep 2, 8:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 49 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.