Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 4:13 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 6, 1996, 4:13 AM CDT (09:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:45 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Logan, KS | |
| Jun 6, 4:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Phillipsburg, KS | |
| Jun 6, 4:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Logan, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 259 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996 ...TIMING OF END OF PCPN TODAY BIGGEST CONCERN ATTM... EVE UA ANALYS INDCTD H5 S/WV TROF SLICING THROUGH CENTRAL WY WITH 100KT JETLET IN SUPPORT AT H3. LINES OF CONVECTION ON KLNX AND KUEX ASSOC WITH SYS ERLY THIS AM...BUT THANKFULLY CWA UNDER RATHER STRONG INFLUENCE OF MESO HI PRES AND MOST OF SVR WX MEETING ITS MAKER ON OUR DOORSTEP. WILL KEEP FINGERS X. H20 VAP LOOP ALSO SHOWING MIDLEVEL S/WV DIGGING OVER NORTHERN TIER WITH MODELS IN AGREEMENT OF SWINGING IT GRDLY THRU CWA BY LATE THIS PM. GUD NVA NOT STRONG IN AREA UNTIL TONIGHT...THUS WILL BREAK OUT CLDS WEST MID PM WITH LINGERING CLDNS EAST. SCT TRW+ FOR WEST SHUD END BEFORE 9 AM WITH EAST LOSING PRECIP CHCS AROUND NOON BASED ON POSN OF NGM VORT POSN AT 18Z. WITH COLD POOL ASSOC WITH TROF SLIPPING TO AREA THIS PM...MSTLY CLDY TDY SEEMS IN ORDER WITH PSBL INSTAB RW THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...MEAN RH VALUES ON MODELS REMAIN ABOVE 60 PCT INTO THE PM WHICH FITS WITH UPSTREAM OBS ASSOC WITH TROF. LITTLE TIME TO CHECK MUCH ELSE OUT GIVEN CURR WX...BUT FWC TEMPS LOOK ON TRAK WITH HI PRES BUILDING IN SFC AND ALFT TON WITH DRIER AIR. THICKNESS AND H8 TEMPS TAKE SOME TIME RECOVERING BEHIND TROF...THUS TEMPS FRI LUK ON TRAK OR A COUPLE DEGS HIER THAN TDY WITH BETTER SOLAR INSOLATION FRI. GRI 077/052 50 HBR 077/052 5- ODX 076/050 40 BLT 078/053 5- LXN 077/049 40 BREWSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 3:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks, Smith | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 5:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 39 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.