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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS

April 23, 2004Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 11 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2004, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cowley County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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
Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	3 S Winfield, KS
Apr 23, 6:33 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	3 S Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:35 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	10 E Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:35 PM CDT	HAIL 1	3 S Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:40 PM CDT	HAIL 1	10 E Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:42 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	5 E Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:49 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	10 E Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 6:50 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	15 Ne Arkansas City, KS	BARN BLOWN DOWN.
Apr 23, 7:00 PM CDT	HAIL 1	5 S Burden, KS
Apr 23, 7:12 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	Arkansas City, KS
Apr 23, 7:14 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Arkansas City, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KICT 232317
SVRICT
KSC035-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
617 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COWLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

* AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF CHILOCCO...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  NEAR ARKANSAS CITY AROUND 630 PM CDT...
  NEAR DEXTER AROUND 705 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
  HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...

HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY...SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COWLEY
COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM CDT.

LAT...LON 3700 9714 3700 9682 3715 9661 3733 9682
          3716 9713

$$

/HOWERTON

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	59 min
Apr 23, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	64 min
Apr 23, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	55 min
Apr 23, 8:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	52 min
Apr 23, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	55 min
Apr 23, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	54 min
Apr 23, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	33 min
Apr 23, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	65 min
Apr 23, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	58 min
Apr 23, 10:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	53 min
Apr 23, 10:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	59 min
Apr 23, 10:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	56 min
Apr 23, 10:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	57 min
Apr 23, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	63 min
Apr 23, 10:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	71 min
Apr 23, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	50 min
Apr 23, 11:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	69 min
Apr 23, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	32 min
Apr 23, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	65 min
Apr 23, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	67 min
Apr 23, 12:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	6 hr
Apr 23, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson	55 min
Apr 23, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	64 min
Apr 23, 6:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	5 hr
Apr 23, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	63 min
Apr 23, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	6 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.