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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Wichita, KS

May 7, 1996Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 8:13 AM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 7, 1996, 8:13 AM CDT (13:13 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1996, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 62 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 13:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 May 7, 4:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 4:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
415 AM CDT TUE MAY 7 1996

DEVELOPING MCS WILL DOMINATE FCST THRU 15Z AS IT PROPAGATES EAST.
SYSTEM APRS TIED TO 700 MD SHORTWAVE OVER SE CO AS INDICATED BY
00Z RUC AND WIND PROFILER NETWORK.

ETA INDICATES THIS FEATURE PULLING OFF ACRS NRN/CEN KS THROUGH
MIDDAY...AND HAVE DECIDED TO LINK TRW CHCS THIS MORNING TO THIS
FEATURE. WITH PLENTY OF HIGH THETA-E AIR ABOVE WARM FRONTAL
INVERSION...WILL NEED TO BE ALERT TO POSS OF LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING.

BIG FCST QUESTION FOR LATER IS WHERE AND WHEN WILL TRW REDEVELOP.
COOLER 700 MB TEMPS AND INCR MID LVL FLOW POINT TO EARLIER
INITIIATION...BUT MODELS ALSO NOT GREAT AT ACCOUNTING FOR MCS
EFFECTS. ALSO LACK OF WELL DEFINE SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT LEADS TO
BELIEF THAT TRW MAY NEED TO FIRE ALONG LOW LVL BNDRYS...WHICH SHOULD
WAIT UNTIL LATE AFTN...MORE LIKELT EARLY EVE. ONCE THEY DO THOUGH..
CAPE NR 3000 AND FAVORABLE VERT SHEAR WILL FAVOR SVR.

RSL 070/058 65   SLN 073/060 65
ICT 080/061 43   HUT 076/061 43
CNU 084/063 33

DAVIS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 8:04 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	67 min
May 7, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	57 min
May 7, 4:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	45 min
May 7, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Rice	69 min
May 7, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	55 min
May 7, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	34 min
May 7, 5:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	61 min
May 7, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	66 min
May 7, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every 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.