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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Wichita, KS

June 6, 1996Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 7:49 AM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 6, 1996, 7:49 AM CDT (12:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 8:45 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 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
Jun 6, 8:23 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Hillsboro, 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 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-376 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman55 min
Jun 5, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper57 min
Jun 5, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner62 min
Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick62 min
Jun 5, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley60 min
Jun 5, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner30 min
Jun 6, 5:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln, Russell68 min
Jun 6, 6:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth66 min
Jun 6, 6:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline63 min
Jun 6, 6:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice63 min
Jun 6, 7:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson64 min
Jun 6, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper63 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.