Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 6:15 AM CST for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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
- Mar 14, 1996, 6:15 AM CST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 6:58 AM CST | Hail 1.5 | Americus, 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 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTOP 141215 RRA SVRTOP KSC111-141315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 615 AM CST THU MAR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN LYON COUNTY AT 612 AM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA OR JUST EAST OF COUNCIL GROVE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR AMERICUS AT 625 AM AND TO NEAR ADMIRE BY 640 AM CST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS! THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS! SW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 5:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 7:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 8:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 42 min |
| Mar 14, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 31 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.