Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Apr 27, 1996, 11:52 PM CDT (04:52 UTC)

Expired

Apr 28, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT

In force

68 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Reno County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:55 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 280452
SVRICT
KSC155-280600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1152 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...RENO COUNTY
 
AT 1151 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2O MILES NORTH OF
PRATT. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH SYLVIA BY 1225
AM AND ARLINGTON BY 1250 AM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS
OF 75 MPH OR GREATER...HAIL LARGER THAN AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND
TORRENTIAL RAIN.  SEEK A STRONG INDOOR SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS
IMMEDIATELY.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY.  YOU SHOULD NEVER
TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS.
 
 
KIRKWOOD

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 57 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
355 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996

FORECAST PROBLEM CONCERNS PRECIP CHANCES...WITH MODELS GOING IN DIFFERENT
DIRECTIONS IN REGARD TO PLACEMENT OF HEAVIEST PRECIP. AGREED WITH NATIONAL
GUIDANCE AND THREW OUT THE NGM WITH ITS USUAL BIAS OF OVERDEVELOPMENT TOO
FAR NORTH. COMPROMISE ETA/AVN SOLUTION LOOKS BEST...THOUGH AVN MAY BE A
LITTLE TOO STRONG WITH SFC FEATURES GIVEN JET ENERGY HANGING BACK IN THE
WESTERN TROUGH. LOOK AT 18Z SFC INDICATES 60+ DEWPOINTS UP TO THE RED
RIVER WITH 50S WELL INTO OKLAHOMA AS LOW WINDS UP OVER WESTERN TX
PANHANDLE. BEST LIFT APPEARS TO BE OVERNIGHT INTO SUN MORNING...AFTER THAT
STG LOW LEVEL CAA KICKS IN WHICH SHOULD SHUT OFF PRECIP FAIRLY QUICKLY
SUN...ESPECIALLY CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL. LINGERING PRECIP IN THE THE
SOUTHEAST THROUGH EARLY MON LOOKS GOOD AS FRONTAL BOUDARY HANGS UP OVER
AR/SE OK. CLOUDS SHOULD LINGER WITH HIGH BL RH ELSWHERE AND WOULDN'T RULE
OUT SOME LIGHT SHOWERS/DRIZZLE. MOS TEMPS CLOSE AND FIT CURRENT FORECAST
OK...MIGHT GO STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING FOR MAXES ON SUN. WILL GO UNDER
GUIDANCE POPS CE...NEAR FAN ELSEWHERE.
.
RSL 045/051 43   SLN 047/054 53
ICT 053/056 75   HU^T 051/055 64
CNU 056/061 88

PETERSEN

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

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.