Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 12:49 AM CDT for Clay County, Cloud County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 7 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
- Jul 8, 1996, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Jamestown, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:10 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Randolph, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:10 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Randolph, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:35 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Leonardville, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Leonardville, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:35 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Leonardville, KS | |
| Jul 8, 1:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Riley, 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1837 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, Jul 8, 12:18 AM CDT, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED HAIL LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
1217 AM CDT MON JUL 08 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1201 AM 5 NE CLIFTON KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/08/96 CLAYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Pottawatomie, Riley | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 41 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.