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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Topeka, KS

May 9, 1996Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 9, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 1996-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2240 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 1996-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 9, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Republic42 min
May 9, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington41 min
May 9, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic37 min
May 9, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Washington29 min
May 9, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay54 min
May 9, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Washington48 min
May 9, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington47 min
May 9, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud37 min
May 9, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Ottawa47 min
May 9, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall52 min
May 9, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Washington47 min
May 9, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha67 min
May 9, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley43 min
May 9, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.