Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

May 3, 1996Osborne County, Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 10:46 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 3 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
May 3, 1996, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 3, 10:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Stockton, KS
May 3, 11:20 PM CDTHail 0.75Alton, KS
May 3, 11:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Natoma, 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1152 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks, Smith30 min
May 3, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks, Smith20 min
May 3, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne69 min
May 3, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks45 min
May 4, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.