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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Topeka, KS

June 6, 1996Clay County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 3:57 AM CDT for Clay County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 6, 1996, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, KS, Ottawa County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3130 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
5.1
Supercell composite
18.2

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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, Jun 6, 2:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
253 AM CDT THU JUN 06 1996

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

0635 PM    MERIDEN                   KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

0711 PM    WETMORE                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   NEMAHA

0730 PM    1 S WHITING               KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JACKSON

1004 PM    OSKALOOSA                 KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1004 PM    2 W OSKALOOSA             KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1004 PM    2 S OSKALOOSA             KS   .88 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   JEFFERSON

1030 PM    EUDORA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   DOUGLAS

1038 PM    3 E LAWRENCE              KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   DOUGLAS

1055 PM    LAWRENCE                  KS   FLOODING
06/05/96   DOUGLAS                        WATER OVER MANY
                                          INTERSECTIONS IN LAWRENCE
1115 PM    LAWRENCE                  KS   FLOODING
06/05/96   DOUGLAS                        ALL STREETS IN LAWRENCE
                                          UNDER AT LEAST 12 INCHES
                                          WATER...SEVERAL HIGHWAYS
                                          IN AND AROUND LAWRENCE
                                          UNDER WATER AND
                                          UNPASSABLE.

1127 PM    TOPEKA BILLARD ARPT       KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1133 PM    TOPEKA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1147 PM    TOPEKA                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/05/96   SHAWNEE

1220 AM    WILMINGTON                KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   WABAUNSEE

1234 AM    SENECA                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   NEMAHA                         3 MILES SOUTHWEST
1240 AM    BURLINGAME                KS   1 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   OSAGE

b1240 AM    POMONA                    KS   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/06/96   FRANKLIN

0110 AM    LYNDON                    KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/06/96   OSAGE

END

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Nemaha25 min
Jun 5, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJackson33 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJefferson29 min
Jun 5, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown49 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJefferson27 min
Jun 5, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson40 min
Jun 5, 9:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJefferson4 hr
Jun 5, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson39 min
Jun 5, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas44 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson40 min
Jun 5, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson33 min
Jun 5, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas47 min
Jun 5, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee43 min
Jun 5, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin57 min
Jun 5, 11:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson3 hr
Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee39 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPShawnee3 hr
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee45 min
Jun 6, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage36 min
Jun 6, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha46 min
Jun 6, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Wabaunsee35 min
Jun 6, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage44 min
Jun 6, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson37 min
Jun 6, 1:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Shawnee4 hr
Jun 6, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson, Shawnee45 min
Jun 6, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary45 min
Jun 6, 5:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley33 min
Jun 6, 5:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWabaunsee42 min
Jun 6, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa46 min
Jun 6, 6:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Shawnee3 hr
Jun 6, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Ottawa58 min
Jun 6, 7:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPGeary, Wabaunsee3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.