Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1996, 7:44 PM CDT for Douglas County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 16, 1996, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 16, 8:01 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Topeka Forbes Fld, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 2527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 170043 SVRTOP KSC045-177-170115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 744 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY AT 741 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN TOPEKA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STULL AND BIG SPRINGS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SJD/GDP
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
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 610 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 622 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTH CENTRAL... CLAY CLOUD OTTAWA REPUBLIC WASHINGTON ...CENTRAL... DICKINSON THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERhSTORM WATCH... ABILINE CLAY CENTER CONCORDIA END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 2 hr |
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.