Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

May 17, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)

Expired

May 17, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

County McPherson County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 180039
SVRICT
KSC113-180145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
738 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...MCPHERSON COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES
WEST OF MARQUETTE...OR 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCPHERSON. THIS STORM IS
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
MARQUETTE...LINDSBORG...WINDOM...AND INTERSTATE 135 NORTH OF MCPHERSON.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNEdD AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
 
 
DAVIS

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 17, 3:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
400 PM CDT FRI MAY 17 1996

MAIN QUESTION FOR TONIGHT IS CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KS.  AT 19Z CAP WAS STILL HOLDING.  TCU TRIED TO
DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KS AROUND MIDDAY IN ADVANCE OF 700
MB VORT MAX/SHORT WAVE...HOWEVER THE CAP QUICKLY SQUASHED THEIR
ATTEMPT IN GROWTH.  SATELLITE SHOWS THAT SHOWERS/TSTMS WERE
DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NEB PANHANDLE WHERE COOLER MID-LEVEL AIR WAS
ERODING AWAY ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE CAP.  MODELS CONTINUE TO
INDICATE THAT SHORTWAVE WILL ERODE SOME OF THE CAP...ITS JUST A
QUESTION OF HOW MUCH.  EIV CHART SHOWS CONVECTIVE TEMP IS 100 IN THE
SOUTHWEST TO 108 IN NORTHEAST. RECORD HEAT ALREADY ACROSS PARTS OF
CENTRAL KS...DEWPOINTS STILL IN THE MIDDLE 60S CENTRAL AND
EAST...AND WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLIDING INTO AREA PROVIDING SOME
LIFT WOULD STILL LIKE TO HOLD A CHANCE OF TSTMS IN FORECAST FOR
TONIGHT. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BECOME ORIENTED SOUTHWEST TO
NORTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE OVERNIGHT AS DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE IN THE
SOUTHEAST U.S. HOLDS TIGHT THROUGH THE NEXT 48HRS.  300 MB UPPER
LEVEL JET WILL CONTINUE TO SLAM INTO THE WEST COAST...RESULT IS
SEVERAL RIPPLES/SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS.  THIS
WILL ALLOW THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO WASHOUT ACROSS KS ON SATURDAY AS
MOST OF THE SUPPORT HEADS OFF TOWARDS THE GREAT LAKES...AND NEXT LEE
SIDE TROF DEVELOPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS LATE SATURDAY
ALLOWING WINDS TO TURN TO THE SOUTH AGAIN ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE
AND PUSH TEMPS BACK INTO THE LOWER 90S.

RSL 064/096 2-   SLN 066/095 3-
ICT 069/095 3-   HUT 067/095 3-
CNU 070/089 3-

NOONAN

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.