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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

March 14, 1996Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 5:29 AM CST for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
Mar 14, 1996, 5:29 AM CST (11:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1996, 6:00 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Dickinson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Mar 14, 5:40 AM CSTHail 0.75Holland, KS
Mar 14, 5:51 AM CSTHail 1Woodbine, KS
Mar 14, 5:58 AM CSTHail 0.75Abilene, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Mar 14, 4:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Morris65 min
Mar 14, 5:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris49 min
Mar 14, 6:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon60 min
Mar 14, 7:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage50 min
Mar 14, 7:11 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage49 min
Mar 14, 7:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Osage49 min
Mar 14, 8:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey42 min
Mar 14, 9:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin30 min
Mar 14, 12:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage31 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.