Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

May 7, 1996, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)

Expired

May 7, 1996, 5:00 AM CDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Russell County, KS

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 070852
SVRICT
KSC167-071000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
353 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...RUSSELL COUNTY
 
AT 352 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
WEST OF RUSSELL. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST
OF RUSSELL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
RUSSELL IS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. EXPECT HAIL UP TO AN INCH IN
DIAMETER AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THESE SEVERE STORMS.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU
ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
MARIEN

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 3:56 PM CDT, 11 hours 57 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
353 PM CDT MON MAY 6 1996

THE FORECAST SEEMS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD.  ZONAL FLOW ALOFT TO
CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH SEVERAL SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH
THE FLOW.  MOISTURE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A PROBLEM...AS 850 MB
MOISTURE CONTINUES TO FLOW UP ACROSS WESTERN TEXAS AND THEN EASTWARD
ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY.  AT THE SFC...70 DEWPOINTS HAD CLIMB ALL
THE WAY UP ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. PRECIPITABLE
WATER WILL REMAIN ABOVE 1.25 PERCENT THROUGH THE NIGHT ACROSS EASTERN
KS...AND WITH STATIONARY FRONT CONTINUING TO LINGER OVER THE
AREA...HEAVY RAINS OVER AREAS WHICH HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME PRETTY
GOOD AMOUNTS THROUGH THE WEEKEND.  A FLASH FLOOD WATCH  WILL BE NEEDED
FOR EASTERN COUNTIES.

MODELS ARE SPLIT ON THE POSITION OF THE SFC LOW WHICH DEVELOPS ALONG
THE HIGH PLAINS OVERNIGHT. NGM HAS THE 12Z LOW ON TUESDAY CENTERED
RIGHT ON THE WESTERN KS BORDER...WHILE THE ETA/AVN KEEPS IT WELL
SOUTH ACROSS THE NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. CONCERN IS THAT IF
ETA/AVN ARE RIGHT...COULD SEE LOW CLOUDS AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING
ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.

RSL 056/074 53   SLN 058/075 53
ICT 062/081 63   HULT 060/079 63
CNU 061/077 63

NOONAN

In the hours before

KSZ070-071-072-094-095-096-098-099-100-070800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
200 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 309 CANCELLED FOR PARTS
SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

THE COUNTIES OF WOODSON...WILSON...MONTGOMERY...ALLEN...NEOSHO...
GREENWOOD...ELK...LABETTE...AND CHAUTAUQUA ARE NO LONGER UNDER
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF THE AREA EARLIER
HAVrE SINCE MOVED EAST AND WEAKENED.

DAVIS

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.