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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Wichita, KS

August 2, 1996Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 8:13 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
Aug 2, 1996, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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
Aug 2, 8:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Heizer, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1996-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4150 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 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
4150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
7.9
Supercell composite
29.6

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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
Aug 2, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell69 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.