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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Wichita, KS

September 25, 1996Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT for Barton 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
Sep 25, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
59 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 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 1996-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 3:41 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
342 PM CDT WED SEP 25 1996

BAD HANDLING OF SURFACE LOW BY ETA OVERNIGHT BUT NGM SEEMS TO BE
WORSE SO PREFER ETA BUT WILL MODIFY.  18Z ANALYSIS SHOWS SURFACE LOW
OVER OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WITH A BOUNDARY EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.  THE LOW IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SOUTHEAST
DRAGGING THE SURFACE BOUNDARY SOUTH OF STATE OVERNIGHT.  PCGRIDDS
SHOWS UPPER LEVEL VORT MAX TO MOVE THROUGH OVERNIGHT AS WELL AS
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE/LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE CUPLET.  LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE ALSO CONTINUES TO FLOW NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM.
THEREFORE PRECIP VERY GOOD BET FOR OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE STATE. TEMPS
WON/T DROP MUCH AT ALL WITH LOW CLOUDS AND HIGH MOISTURE.

EXPECT A BREAK IN THE PRECIP TOMORROW DURING THE DAY BEFORE NEXT
SYSTEM COMES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

RSL 057/063 95  SLN 059/065 95
ICT 061/065 95  HUT 060/065 85
CNU 063/067 85

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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.