Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1996, 7:42 PM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1996, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chase County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 4:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 419 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996 IN THE SHORT TERM...TEMPS WILL BE APCHG CONVECTIVE TEMPS DURING THE NEXT SVRL HRS...WITH 88D ALREADY SHOWING DVLPMT ARND EDGES OF CWA. THIS WL LKLY CONT INTO THE ERLY EVE. OVRNGT...ETA FCSTS A SHRTWV TO TRAVERSE MOST OF THE CWA...EXITING SE KS TMRW AM. THIS DRAGS A SFC BNDRY ACRS CNTRL/S CNTRL KS TNGT. RATHER JUICY AIR OVR OK WL CONT TO STREAM NWRD IN ADVANCE OF THE SWWRD MOVG BNDRY. RESPECTABLE POSITIVE AREAS ON FCST SNDGS...SO TSTMS APPEAR TO BE A GOOD BET OVRNGT...A FEW WL LKLY BE SVR. PTCHY F LKLY TNGT IN SE KS WITH INFLUX OF LVLL MOIST. LINGERING CLDS AND LLVL MOISTURE WL LKLY CUT INTO WARMUP TMRW...WITH BEST CHC OF R IN THE SE. RSL 063/083 62 SLN 063/084 62 ICT 065/081 63 HUT 065/082 63 CNU 068/078 45 HOWERTON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS
457 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM SALINA KS .88 INCH HAIL
07/13/96 SALINE LOCATION WAS 3N...REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
HOWERTONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 62 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.