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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1996Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 5:50 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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

Local storm report, May 26, 5:24 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
523 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0501 PM    VINE CREEK                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/96   OTTAWA                         THREE/FOURTHS INCH HAIL
                                          REPORTED NEAR VINE CREEK

LWS

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, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	36 min
May 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.