Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 8:33 AM CST for Anderson County, Coffey County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 14, 1996, 8:33 AM CST (14:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anderson County, KS, Coffey County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 9:06 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Waverly, 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 141432 RRA SVRTOP KSC003-031-141515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 833 AM CST THU MAR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN ANDERSON COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN COFFEY COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF WAVERLY...HALLS SUMMIT...AND HARRIS. AT 830 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLAR RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES EAST OF EMPORIA NEAR HALLS SUMMIT MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD WAVERLY BY 845 AM AND HARRIS BY 9AM. HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 65 min |
| Mar 14, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 5:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 6:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 7:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 31 min |
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.