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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Topeka, KS

July 28, 1996Pottawatomie County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 5:29 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1996, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Pottawatomie County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 354 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1793 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud51 min
Jul 28, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.