Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1996, 7:10 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 11 reports 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
- Jun 4, 1996, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Argonia, KS | |
| Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Argonia, KS | |
| Jun 4, 7:28 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Conway Springs, KS | |
| Jun 4, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Argonia, KS | |
| Jun 4, 7:32 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Caldwell, KS | |
| Jun 4, 7:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Caldwell, KS | |
| Jun 4, 8:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Caldwell, KS | |
| Jun 4, 8:04 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Caldwell, KS | |
| Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Argonia, KS | |
| Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Argonia, KS | |
| Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Argonia, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 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 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 Jun 4, 3:55 AM CDT, 15 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:55 AM CDT, 15 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 354 AM CDT TUE JUN 4 1996 NO GRIDDED DATA AVBL. ETA/NGM FAIRLY CLOSE OVRALL THRU 24HRS. H8/SFC RDG TO SLIDE EWD TO MO BORDER DURG THE DAY AS LEE TROFG DVLPS ACRS WRN KS. LO LVL WAA/LIFT ZN TO SET UP ACRS CNTRL KS WHICH WL ALLOW MSTR RETURN AND AMS DSTBLZN ACRS WRN CWA. NWLY UPR FLO TO RIPPLE ANOTHER S/W INTO STA LATER TODAY. ALL THIS SPELLS GOOD CHC FOR TSTMS ESPCLY THIS AFTN ACRS CNTRL KS...WITH SMLR CHC E OF FLINT HILLS TWD EVE. EXTENT OF MID/HIGH CLDS WL AFFECT MAX TEMPS TODAY. BATCH OF CS/AC ACRS WRN NE ATTM FM WK CNVTN WL SPILL SEWD ACRS AREA THIS MRNG. SMATTERING OF THESE CLDS SHUD MAKE FOR GEN BKN SKY CHARACTER THRU DAY. PROGD H8 TEMPS WUD SUPPORT HIGHS A LTL ABV 80 WITH FULL SS...HOWEVER WITH XPCTD CLDS 75-80 PROBLY MORE RSNBL...WITH WRN SXNS REALIZING TOP END OF CATEGORY. > RSL 079/060 53 SLN 078/061 54 ICT 079/063 54 HUT 080/062 54 CNU 077/061 35 DARMOFAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 68 min |
| Jun 4, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.