Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 6:01 PM CDT for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1996, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 26, 11:11 AM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 11:11 AM CDT, 6 hours 50 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
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, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 41 min |
| 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.