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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1996Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 4:09 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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 26, 1996, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 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 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 53	Bennington, 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, 9.2 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-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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 11:26 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	62 min
May 26, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson	40 min
May 26, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary, Riley	45 min
May 26, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	45 min
May 26, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary	34 min
May 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	36 min
May 26, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	40 min
May 26, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	36 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Riley	116 min
May 26, 6:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee	3 hr
May 26, 6:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.