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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Topeka, KS

June 5, 1996Jackson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 3:20 PM CDT for Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 5, 1996, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 419 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 052020
SVRTOP
KSC177-197-085-149-052115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
320 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY...WABAUNSEE COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...SOUTHERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MANHATTAN NEAR WESTMORELAND. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH
AND WILL HAVE PASSED ACROSS BELVUE...LOUISVILLE...ST MARYS...PAXICO AND
MAPLE HILL BY 345 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM!  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

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, Jun 5, 11:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-060105-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1158 AM CDT WED JUN 5 1996

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE COMBINED
WITH A WEATHER DISTURBANCE ALOFT WILL BRING A THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER OVER THE AREA DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS ALSO POSSIBLE DURING THE MID TO
LATE EVENING HOURS AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE STATE.  AGAIN
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES WIHLL BE POSSIBLE INTO
THE NIGHTTIME HOURS.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH COVERS
MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT.

FRANTZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	50 min
Jun 5, 1:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon	3 hr
Jun 5, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	60 min
Jun 5, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	55 min
Jun 5, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	58 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jefferson	44 min

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.