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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Wichita, KS

July 11, 1993Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1993, 5:10 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1993, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1993, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1993-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 354 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-477 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno46 min
Jul 11, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner64 min
Jul 11, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick62 min
Jul 11, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner69 min
Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick, Sumner4 hr
Jul 11, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley58 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner38 min
Jul 11, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley, Sumner68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.