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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Wichita, KS

April 28, 1996Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 2:59 AM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
Apr 28, 1996, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1996, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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, 3:20 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Winfield, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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

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 Apr 28, 2:53 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:53 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
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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, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick68 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

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.