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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2005, 5:32 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2005, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 6:31 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 10, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 430 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... FORECAST HIGHLIGHT: EXTENSION OF FLOOD WATCH TO 1 PM SATURDAY THATLL INCLUDE ALL OF SE KS. TONIGHT & SATURDAY: NUMEROUS TSRA ADVANCING N FROM NW OK ACROSS SW & SC KS. CONVECTION CAUSED BY STRONG SFC-850MB MOSITRUE ADVECTION INDUCED BY PERSISTENT CYCLOGENESIS CONTINUING OVER ERN NM. WITH SLOW EWD MOVEMENT OF UPPER TROF ORIENTED N-S OVER WRN FRINGE OF ROCKIES, TSRA TO PERSIST OVER NEARLY ALL OF FORECAST AREA THRU SAT AFTERNOON. COUPLED WITH SOAKED GROUNDS & RISING RIVERS FROM PREVIOUS RAINS, EXTENDED FLOOD WATCH TIL SAT AFTERNOON THAT NOW INCLUDES SE KS COUNTIES OF ALLEN, LABETTE, MONTGOMERY, NEOSHO, WILSON & WOODSON. MOISTURE-LADEN ENVIRONMENT DICTATES NARROWING DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE ALL AREAS. SATURDAY NIGHT: ONGOING CONVECTION THATLL SPREAD ACROSS FORECAST TONIGHT & SATURDAY WILL LIFT NE AS PARENT MID-UPPER LOW MOVES IN LIKE MANNER. HOWEVER, NEW TSRA DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED LATE SAT NIGHT AS CONVECTIVELY-INDUCED 500-MB VORT LOBE SCOOTS NE OVER WRN & CENTRAL KS. ETA80 MOST AGGRES- SIVE IN DEPICTION OF STRONG 850-MB THETA-E ADVECTION OVER SC & CENTRAL KS DURING 1A-7A TIMEFRAME WHICH, CONSIDERING OVERALL PATTERN, MAKES SENSE. AS SUCH HAVE PRESSED HARDER ON POP THROTTLE OVER BOTH AREAS (MORE SO CENTRAL KS WHERE THETA-E GRADIENT TIGHTEST) ASSIGNING 50% POP TO CENTRAL KS. RESULTANT RAINFALL PLUS BEHAVIOR OF OVERALL PATTERN WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY() AS NEW FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED FOR CENTRAL & SC KS. SUNDAY: GOOD CHANCES FOR CONTINUED TSRA AS MID-UPPER TROF ASSUMES NEGATIVE TILT OVER WRN KS. AS SUCH HAVE INCREASED POPS OVER BOTH CENTRAL & SC KS TO 40-50%. WAS TEMPTED TO RAISE EVEN FURTHER BUT DID NOT SO AS TO ALLOW SUCCESSOR CHANCE TO STUDY SUBSEQUENT MODEL RUNS. NEXT WEEK: NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WICHITA-KICT 67 83 67 86 / 90 50 40 50 HUTCHINSON 66 83 66 85 / 100 40 50 60 NEWTON 67 82 67 86 / 90 60 40 50 ELDORADO 68 82 67 86 / 90 60 40 50 WINFIELD-KWLD 69 83 67 86 / 90 50 40 50 RUSSELL 64 82 64 84 / 80 30 60 50 GREAT BEND 65 83 64 84 / 90 20 50 60 SALINA 66 82 66 85 / 90 60 50 50 MCPHERSON 66 82 66 85 / 90 50 50 60 COFFEYVILLE 70 81 68 87 / 60 70 40 40 CHANUTE 69 80 68 87 / 70 80 50 40 IOLA 69 80 68 87 / 70 80 60 40 && .ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM FRIDAY UNTIL 2 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...ALLEN...BARTON...BUTLER...CHASE... CHAUTAUQUA...COWLEY...ELK...ELLSWORTH...GREENWOOD...HARPER... HARVEY...KINGMAN...LABETTE...LINCOLN...MARION...MCPHERSON... MONTGOMERY...NEOSHO...RENO...RICE...RUSSELL...SALINE... SEDGWICK...SUMNER...WILSON...AND WOODSON. && 99/ES *CORRECTED TONIGHT & SATURDAY PORTION OF DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE NEOSHO & WILSON COUNTIES WHICH HAD BEEN INADVERTENTLY OVERLOOKED.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 11:09 AM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1109 AM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-111200- RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE- RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER- SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE- 1109 AM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THIS LINE MAY INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. OTHERWISE, A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OF PERHAPS GREATER CONCERN, IS THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD VERY WELL LEAD TO MORE FLOODING. CONSEQUENTLY, A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED EAST TO INCLUDE ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE ONCE AGAIN POSSIBLE FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THRU MONDAY MORNING. DETAILS REMAIN UNCLEAR REGARDING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE, SO PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND SUBSEQUENT OUTLOOKS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY ALONG, AND WEST, OF THE FLINT HILLS. RAINFALL AND ANY FLOODING REPORTS ARE ALWAYS GREATLY APPRECIATED. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION, SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWOICT.HTM KLEINSASSER/LAWSON/ES/COX
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.