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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS

March 28, 1993Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1993, 11:11 AM CST for Cherokee County, Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 1993, 11:11 AM CST (17:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1993, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1260 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:33 AM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:13 AM CST, 4 hours 58 minutes before

KSZ009-012-281300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
612 AM CST SUN MAR 28 1993

...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 605 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED AN LINE OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR
KINGMAN...30 MILES WEST OF WICHITA TO SUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY...35 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUPR AND WILL EFFECT SEDGWICK...
SOUTHERN RENO AND SUMNER COUNTIES BETWEEN 630 AND 7 AM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED FOR FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

OGREN

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 9:21 AM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	43 min
Mar 28, 6:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	50 min
Mar 28, 7:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	29 min
Mar 28, 7:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	36 min
Mar 28, 7:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	49 min
Mar 28, 7:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Marion	64 min
Mar 28, 8:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	65 min
Mar 28, 8:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	40 min
Mar 28, 8:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	69 min
Mar 28, 8:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	69 min
Mar 28, 8:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	47 min
Mar 28, 10:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	43 min
Mar 28, 10:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	48 min
Mar 28, 10:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	68 min
Mar 28, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	45 min
Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	45 min
Mar 28, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	31 min
Mar 28, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	61 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.