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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Wichita, KS

June 13, 2001Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 10:23 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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: Jun 13, 2001, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Russell County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Gorham, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 901 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
349 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IS TIMING OF PRECIP TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW.
MODELS ARE SIMILAR WITH TIMING OF THE UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...TAKING
THE TROUGH ACROSS THE FCST AREA BY 06Z FRI. IN THE LOWER LEVELS...
MODELS DIFFER SLIGHTLY. THE AVN/ETA DEVELOPS A LOW OVER SW CO BY
THIS EVENING. NGM HAS IT/S TYPICAL NORTHERN BIAS SO AM TRENDING
TOWARD THE ETA/AVN. THIS LOW IS PROGGED TO SLIDE N/NE ALONG THE
BOUNDARY CURRENTLY OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE. THE
DEVELOPING LOW OVER SW KS WILL HELP LOW LEVEL WINDS TO BACK DURING
THE EVENING...00-03Z.

COULD BE A COUPLE AREAS WHERE CONVECTION WILL START. ONE WILL BE
NORTH OF THE FCST AREA WHERE CONVERGENCE WILL BE MAXIMIZED ALONG
SFC/850MB BOUNDARY. ANOTHER COULD BE WEST OF THE FCST AREA WHERE
WINDS WILL BACK THIS EVENING...THEREBY INCREASING THE CONVERGENCE IN
THIS AREA. EXPECT THERE COULD BE SOME TSRA OVER NCEN PORTIONS OF THE
FCST AREA THIS EVENING...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE SEVERE DUE TO A GOOD
VEERING WIND PROFILE AND HIGH CAPES. PROBLEM WITH THIS IS THERE IS
STILL A GOOD CAP OVER MUCH OF THE STATE. WOULD EXPECT SOME TSRA TO
BACK BUILD DOWN THETA-E AXIS ACROSS EASTERN KS OVERNIGHT...AND A
LINE OF CONVECTION TO MOVE INTO CEN/SCEN SECTIONS TONIGHT FROM THE
WEST.

SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE COMING OUT SLOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. SO
WILL REINTRODUCE MORNING PRECIP FOR MAINLY SCEN SECTION AND WILL
TAKE OUT MORNING WORDING FOR SE KS. WILL ALSO PUT IN SLIGHT CHC
MORNING PRECIP FOR SLN AREA. OTHERWISE WILL KEEP REMAINDER OF FCST
DRY FOR NOW.

SINCE THE SYSTEM IS COMING OUT SLOWER...WILL BUMP UP LOWS OVERNIGHT
FOR MAINLY SCEN/SE SECTIONS. AFTER A BRIEF NW WIND AFTER THE FRONTAL
PASSAGE...EXPECT WINDS TO BECOME WESTERLY FOR FRIDAY. THIS WILL PUT
A DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT TO THE WIND...HELPING TEMPS FRIDAY TO WARM.
WILL THEREFORE BUMP UP TEMPS SLIGHTLY FRIDAY. REMAINDER OF TEMP FCST
LOOKS GOOD.

THANKS FOR COORD...TOP.

FCSTID = 7/NRR
ICT   69  85  62  87 /  30  20  10   0
HUT   67  84  60  86 /  40  20  10   0
EWK   68  85  61  87 /  40  20  10   0
EQA   70  85  62  88 /  40  20  10   0
WLD   70  85  62  87 /  30  20  10   0
RSL   64  81  57  86 /  40  10   0   0
GBD   64  81  57  86 /  50  10   5   0
SLN   67  85  60  86 /  50  20  10   0
MPR   67  85  60  85 /  50  20  10   0
CFV   72  86  64  84 /q  30  30  10   0
CNU   72  86  64  84 /  30  30  10   0
K88   72  85  64  84 /  30  30  10   0

.ICT...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	64 min
Jun 14, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	40 min
Jun 14, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Woodson	40 min
Jun 14, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Allen	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.