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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Topeka, KS

May 4, 1996Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 12:38 AM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
May 4, 1996, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 181 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 336 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
181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
432 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.6

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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
May 4, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson48 min
May 4, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay58 min
May 4, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Morris60 min
May 4, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Wabaunsee62 min
May 4, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee61 min
May 4, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage40 min

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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.