Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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
- May 8, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Haven, KS | |
| May 8, 10:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mt Vernon, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 8, 4:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 4:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 230 PM CDT WED MAY 8 1996 DISCUSSION... 18Z SURFACE MAP SHOWS FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO LINGER ACROSS SOUTHWEST KS TO NORTH CENTRAL KS. SATELLITE IS SHOWING A NICE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM STORMS EARLIER THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS MOVING INTO THE AREA. CAP OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS BIGGEST CONCERN FOR THIS EVENING. +12C AND 700 MB WAS NOSING INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING...BUT BOTH NGM/ETA GRIDDED DATA INDICATED THAT IT MAY GET PUSHED A LITTLE TO THE WEST BY THIS EVENING ALLOWING THE CAP TO BE BROKEN...ESPECIALLY IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KS. ADAP AT 18Z SHOWS CAP WAS DOWN TO 2 DEGREES...AND ALSO SHOWS NICE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE INTO CENTRAL KANSAS BETWEEN THE TWO BOUNDARIES. AS FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS...WITH CU FIELD WORKING UP OVER EASTERN OK TSTMS POSSIBLE AS IT MEETS THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. ALSO AM LEANING TOWARDS THE ETA SOLUTION THIS AFTERNOON. NGM POSITIONING OF SFC FEATURES JUST ISN'T PANNING OUT. SURFACE LOW SHOULD REMAIN ACROSS WESTERN KS THROUGH THE PERIOD...UNTIL COLD FRONT PUSHES IN THURSDAY NIGHT. TEMPS ONLY FELL INTO THE UPPER 60S LAST NIGHT...AND WITH NOTHING REALLY CHANGING...EXPECT TEM:PS NEAR 70 AGAIN TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHERN KS AND INTO THE LOWER 60S IN CENTRAL. RSL 061/084 31 SLN 065/086 41 ICT 069/090 20 HUT 068/090 20 CNU 069/068 31 NOONAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| May 8, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 52 min |
| May 8, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 52 min |
| May 8, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 69 min |
| May 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 69 min |
| May 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 62 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.