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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Wichita, KS

June 23, 1996McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 5 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 23, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County McPherson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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

Time	Report	Where
Jun 23, 8:53 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Canton, KS
Jun 23, 8:53 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Canton, KS
Jun 23, 9:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Pherson, KS
Jun 23, 9:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Mc Pherson, KS
Jun 23, 9:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Pherson, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

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

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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 3:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
315 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996

CHGS: NONE MJR.

PRSTNT/STNRY FNTL BNDRY DRAPED ALG KS/NE BDR TO RMN AS SUCH THRUT 1ST &
2ND FCST PDS. ADAP INDCTG MDT FLUX CNVG NR BNDRY IN NE KS BUT W/ FNT RMNG
N OF CWA WENT WITH DRY FCST 1ST & 2ND PDS.

SFC TROF OVR WRN KS & IF CNVCTN SHUD DVLP ALG THIS TROF MID-UPR RDG POSND
OVR S/SE U.S. SHUD STEER TSTRMS N OF CWA. IF TOP FEELS MORE CMFRTBL KPG
20% POPS IN FOR TNGT CAN LIVE W/ IT. TEMPS SHUD BE SMLR TO PAST CUPL NGTS
& W/ BOTH MOS IN AGRMT WON'T STRAY FROM CRNT NUMBERS.

RSL 068/089 00  SLN 071/093 00
ICT 070/095 00  HUT 070/095 00
CNU 071/091 00
ES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	44 min
Jun 23, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson	45 min
Jun 23, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	63 min
Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	42 min
Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	40 min
Jun 23, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	69 min
Jun 23, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	68 min
Jun 23, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	63 min

Nearby

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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.