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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 3:34 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 26, 1996, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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 20:44 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 26, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Arkansas City, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 26, 11:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 11:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 400 AM CDT SAT MAY 25 1996 MORNING SOUNDINGS SOOW AMS FAIRLY WORKED OVER BY LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION AND LITTLE POSITIVE ENERGY AVAILABLE. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT IT WILL TAKE A WHILE FOR AFTN HEATING TO OVERCOME THIS DUE TO CLD COVER. LATER TDY...COLD POOL ALOFT STARTS TO AFFECT KS AND THIS WILL COMBINE WITH NORTHWARD MOVING WARM FNT AND SFC WAA TO RAPIDLY DESTABALIZE AMS. TIMING UNSURE AND ALMOST LOWERED POPS TDY...BUT KEPT THEM UP DUE TO LOW CCTS. XPCT SCATTERED TSTMS/SHOWERS BY LATE AFTN...BUT HEAVY STUFF SHOULD WAIT UNTIL COLD POOL ALOFT ARRIVES THIS EVENING. ALSO RAISED TEMPS TO MATCH GOING TREND. RSL 075/059 76 \ SLN 077/061 76 ICT 082/062 66 HUT 080/061 66 CNU 085/062 66 MATT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 11:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 61 min |
| May 26, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 61 min |
| May 26, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 61 min |
| May 26, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 80 min |
| May 26, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
| May 26, 3:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 4 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 2 hr |
| May 26, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 24 min |
| May 26, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 41 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 29 min |
| May 26, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 44 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.