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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS

April 28, 1996Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 12:37 AM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 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
Apr 28, 1996, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
68 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 05:36 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
Apr 28, 12:52 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Goddard, KS
Apr 28, 1:02 AM CDTHail 0.88Viola, KS
Apr 28, 1:15 AM CDTHail 1.75Clearwater, KS
Apr 28, 1:15 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Clearwater, KS
Apr 28, 1:17 AM CDTHail 1Wichita Airport, 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 280543
SVRICT
KSC173-280645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1237 AM CDT SUN APR 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SEDGWICK COUNTY
 
AT 1241 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN SEDGWICK COUNTY....NEAR CHENEY OR
ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF WICHITA. THESE STORMS WILL SWEEP FROM WEST TO
EACH ACROSS THE COUNTY AT 35 MPH. GODDARD...CLONMEL AND WICHITA ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZED AND WINDS TO 75 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.
 
HOWERTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler65 min
Apr 27, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick61 min
Apr 27, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood68 min
Apr 27, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner57 min
Apr 27, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno68 min
Apr 27, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley65 min
Apr 28, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman69 min
Apr 28, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWoodson67 min
Apr 28, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk59 min
Apr 28, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua69 min
Apr 28, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson64 min
Apr 28, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTNeosho57 min
Apr 28, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner67 min
Apr 28, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery55 min
Apr 28, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua66 min
Apr 28, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper68 min
Apr 28, 1:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette64 min
Apr 28, 1:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner69 min
Apr 28, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk58 min
Apr 28, 2:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua58 min
Apr 28, 2:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery56 min
Apr 28, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley61 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.