Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1996, 7:14 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 23, 1996, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1696 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 23, 3:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 357 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 1996 TREND FOR THE NEXT 48HRS WILL BE FOR UPPER TROF TO DEEPED ACROSS MS VALLEY WITH OUR CWA REMAINING IN NW FLOW. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY/PROFILER NETWORK SHOWS SHORTWAVE/SHEAR AXIS ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA HELPING TO SPARK CONVECTION ACROSS NEBRASKA. MODELS DIFFER ON TIMING WITH THIS FEATURE...WITH THE NGM THE FASTEST. BASED ON WATER VAPOR PIX WILL LEAN TOWARD SLOWER ETA. GRIDDED DATA SHOWS SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW TO RETURN FROM THE SOUTH WHICH SHOULD ADVECT UPPER 60/NEAR 70 DEGREE DWPTS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. WITH FORECAST LI/S FROM -5 TO -7/THETA-E RIDGE IN PLACE AND SIGNS OF UPPER DIFLUENCE...FEEL CURRENT CHANCE FOR TRW TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD. NEXT SPEED MAX/ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT TO SWEEP INTO AREA FROM NORTH ON WEDNESDAY...WITH NGM PUMPING OUT SOME IMPRESSIVE QPF VALUES. FEEL FAN POPS ARE TOO CONSERVATIVE WEDNESDAY. WITH ETA HINTING AT COOLING 85H TEMPS OVER REGION AND ANITICIPATED CLOUDS WILL LEAN TOWARD SLIGHTLY COOLER FWC NUBMERS FOR HIGHS. RSL 066/084 54 SLN 066/085 54 ICT 067/086 45 HUT 066/087 45 CNU 068/087 24 HYSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jul 23, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.