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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Wichita, KS

May 5, 1996Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 9:01 AM CDT for Labette 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
May 5, 1996, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Labette County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1814 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 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
1814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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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
May 5, 5:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno57 min
May 5, 6:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase59 min
May 5, 7:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood57 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.