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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Springfield, MO

August 16, 1996Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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: Aug 16, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
Aug 16, 6:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Redfield, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 162300
SVRSGF
KSC011-162345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
557 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...BOURBON COUNTY
 
...AT 558 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF
FORT SCOTT OR IN THE REDFIELD AREA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
STORM WILL EFFECT THE REDFIELD...MARMATON... AND FT SCOTT AREAS THRU 645
PM.
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF HALF DOLLARS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
JDG/FEDH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	45 min
Aug 16, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.