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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Wichita, KS

July 21, 1996Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1996, 11:46 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 21, 1996, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 1996-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 441 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1996-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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
Jul 21, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell51 min
Jul 21, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln, Russell45 min
Jul 21, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno67 min
Jul 22, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno, Sedgwick62 min
Jul 22, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Saline61 min
Jul 22, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Woodson39 min
Jul 22, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen31 min
Jul 22, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman46 min
Jul 22, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman35 min
Jul 22, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper45 min
Jul 22, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.