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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Wichita, KS

June 23, 1996Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 10:21 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min. 6 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, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sedgwick County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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 23, 10:42 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Sunnydale, KS
Jun 23, 10:46 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Wichita, KS
Jun 23, 10:54 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Wichita (Jabara), KS
Jun 23, 10:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Wichita, KS
Jun 23, 10:58 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Wichita, KS
Jun 23, 11:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Wichita, 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1751 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 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1751 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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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, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:17 PM CDT, 7 hours 4 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson39 min
Jun 23, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion44 min
Jun 23, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson45 min
Jun 23, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman63 min
Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion42 min
Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey40 min
Jun 23, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler68 min
Jun 23, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner63 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.