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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Wichita, KS

May 24, 1996Barton County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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 24, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Barton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Great Bend, 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 3211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 24, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
400 PM CDT THU MAY 23 1996

18Z SFC MAP SHOWS NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT FROM ABOUT STJ TO JUST W OF P28
AND THEN INTO LOW OVR ERN NM.  MDLS TEND TO WANT TO TAKE THIS FRONT S A
BIT INTO NRN OK...BUT WAVE SEEMS TO BE FORMING ON FRONT NR HUT.  THIS WAVE
KEEPING ERN SECTIONS OF FNT FROM MOVG SOUTH.  GOOD CONVERGENCE ALONG
FRONT...BUT WK CAP STILL IN PLACE.  CAP INITIALLY WKND BY MID LVL
CONVECTION AND VIRGA ASSOCD WITH SHRTWV MOVG THRU ERN KS THIS MRNG AND
EARLY THIS AFTN.  XPCT HTG AND MSTR CONVERGENCE ALONG FRONT TO BE ENOUGH
TO BREAK THIS CAP THIS AFTN AND EVENING.  CURRENT WW OVR SE KS AND
MISSOURI MAY BE DROPPED FOR KS PART AS SOON AS SHRTWV EXITS STATE.  NEXT
SHORTWAVE KICKING OUT OF NM AND THE PANHANDLES WILL BE NEXT THREAT LATE
TODAY AND THIS EVENING.  THIS SHRTWV PROGGED TO MOV OUT ACRS NRN KS TNGT.
FRONT TO BE TILTED NORTHWARD QUITE A BIT OVRNGT WITH LLJ SETTING UP NICELY
TO FUEL MCS ALONG IT IN AREA OF ISENTROPIC UPLIFT.  BEST LIFT FROM LLJ MAY
BE IN AREA FROM P28 TO GBD.  THICKNESS TENDS TO INDICATE THAT ANY MCS THAT
FORMS SHOULD MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS.
TMRW...WILL BUMP POPS FOR AFTN TSTMS DUET TO COOLER 700 TEMPS XPCTD AND
FRONTAL BNDRY STILL IN AREA.

FOR TEMPS...HAVE GONE WITH PERSISTANCE.

RSL 064/090 44   SLN 067/090 54
ICT 069/090 44   HUT 068/090 44
CNU 066/090 44

MATT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 11:51 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 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 24, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	34 min
May 24, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton	29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.