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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS

June 22, 1996Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 5:46 PM CDT for Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 22, 1996, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -229 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-339 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 222245
TORTOP
KSC161-222315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
546 PM CDT SAT JUN 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN RILEY COUNTY
 
AT 544 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY MILITARY PERSONNEL ON FORT
RILEY.
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE
TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
OGDEN AND MANHATTAN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RILEY
COUNTY.
 
A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND!  TAKE SHELTER NOW!
 
WALAWENDER
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall44 min
Jun 22, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Riley58 min
Jun 22, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Riley49 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Geary, Riley49 min
Jun 22, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.