Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 6:09 PM CDT for Marshall County, Washington 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, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Barnes, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 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
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, 45 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
LWSThe 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, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 40 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
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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.