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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Topeka, KS

June 12, 1996Clay County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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
Jun 12, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Clay County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 7:40 PM CDTHail 1.75Clay Center, 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 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 6:27 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay53 min
Jun 12, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.