Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1996, 10:16 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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
- May 22, 1996, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:25 PM CDT | Hail 0.59 | Courtland, KS | |
| May 22, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Belleville, KS | |
| May 22, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Cuba, 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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 230316 TORTOP KSC157-230400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1016 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...REPUBLIC COUNTY A POSSIBLE TORNADO CONTINUED TO BE INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR TO THE NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR SCANDIA. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE TORNADO TOWARD BELLEVILLE BY 1045PM. AN 1013PM CDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE TOWN OF REPUBLIC. TAKE COVER NOW. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO CONTINUES FOR REPUBLIC COUNTY UNTIL 5AM CDT. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! KAYS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 26 min |
| May 22, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 63 min |
| May 22, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 33 min |
| May 22, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 52 min |
| May 22, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 41 min |
| May 22, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 43 min |
| May 22, 11:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 49 min |
| May 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 33 min |
| May 23, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 50 min |
| May 23, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 40 min |
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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.