Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS

Issued

Apr 27, 1996, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)

Expired

Apr 28, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

65 min

Issued by

NWS Wichita, KS

Area

Whole counties

County Butler County, KS

The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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 280358
SVRICT
KSC015-280500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1055 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY
 
AT 1057 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR
WHITEWATER...OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EL DORADO. THE STORM IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REACH BURNS BY 1130.
 
 
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 OUTS^IDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
KIRKWOOD

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT, 7 hours earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
355 PM CDT SAT APR 27 1996

FORECAST PROBLEM CONCERNS PRECIP CHANCES...WITH MODELS GOING IN DIFFERENT
DIRECTIONS IN REGARD TO PLACEMENT OF HEAVIEST PRECIP. AGREED WITH NATIONAL
GUIDANCE AND THREW OUT THE NGM WITH ITS USUAL BIAS OF OVERDEVELOPMENT TOO
FAR NORTH. COMPROMISE ETA/AVN SOLUTION LOOKS BEST...THOUGH AVN MAY BE A
LITTLE TOO STRONG WITH SFC FEATURES GIVEN JET ENERGY HANGING BACK IN THE
WESTERN TROUGH. LOOK AT 18Z SFC INDICATES 60+ DEWPOINTS UP TO THE RED
RIVER WITH 50S WELL INTO OKLAHOMA AS LOW WINDS UP OVER WESTERN TX
PANHANDLE. BEST LIFT APPEARS TO BE OVERNIGHT INTO SUN MORNING...AFTER THAT
STG LOW LEVEL CAA KICKS IN WHICH SHOULD SHUT OFF PRECIP FAIRLY QUICKLY
SUN...ESPECIALLY CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL. LINGERING PRECIP IN THE THE
SOUTHEAST THROUGH EARLY MON LOOKS GOOD AS FRONTAL BOUDARY HANGS UP OVER
AR/SE OK. CLOUDS SHOULD LINGER WITH HIGH BL RH ELSWHERE AND WOULDN'T RULE
OUT SOME LIGHT SHOWERS/DRIZZLE. MOS TEMPS CLOSE AND FIT CURRENT FORECAST
OK...MIGHT GO STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING FOR MAXES ON SUN. WILL GO UNDER
GUIDANCE POPS CE...NEAR FAN ELSEWHERE.
.
RSL 045/051 43   SLN 047/054 53
ICT 053/056 75   HU^T 051/055 64
CNU 056/061 88

PETERSEN

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.