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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1996Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 26, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
In force
45 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 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 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 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 137 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 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 26, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa62 min
May 26, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson40 min
May 26, 3:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Geary, Riley45 min
May 26, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary34 min
May 26, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa36 min
May 26, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa36 min
May 26, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley40 min
May 26, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington36 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPRiley116 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee3 hr
May 26, 6:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJackson, Jefferson3 hr

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.