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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1996Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 7:41 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2098 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.4
Supercell composite
14.5

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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, 2 hours 17 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

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.