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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Topeka, KS

May 9, 1996Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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: May 9, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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
May 9, 7:41 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Belleville, 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 9.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 100039
SVRTOP
KSC157-100115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
738 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY
 
AT 737 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA OR JUST EAST OF BELLEVILLE.
 
THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH CUBA AND AGENDA BETWEEN 800 PM AND 815 PM.
 
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL.  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS!
 
GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM ^WINDOWS!  A
TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	42 min
May 9, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	41 min
May 9, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Washington	29 min
May 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	54 min
May 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	48 min
May 9, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	47 min
May 9, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	37 min
May 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Ottawa	47 min
May 9, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	52 min
May 9, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	47 min
May 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	67 min
May 9, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	43 min
May 9, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	31 min
May 9, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	38 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.