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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS

May 9, 1996Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1996, 10:44 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 9, 1996, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 2240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 9.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 100345
TORTOP
KSC117-100415-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1044 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...EASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY
 
AT 1043 PM...THE MARSHALL COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN 6
MILES SOUTH OF MARYSVILLE.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH TOWARD WINIFRED AND FRANKFORT AND
SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THESE AREAS BY 1100 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING!  AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES!  GO IN A .NEARBY STURDY BUILDING!  AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD!
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	42 min
May 9, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	41 min
May 9, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	37 min
May 9, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Washington	29 min
May 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	54 min
May 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	48 min
May 9, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	47 min
May 9, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	37 min
May 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Ottawa	47 min
May 9, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	52 min
May 9, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	47 min
May 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	67 min
May 9, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	43 min
May 9, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	38 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.