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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2006, 11:56 PM CDT for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- May 23, 2006, 11:56 PM CDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2006, 12:28 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 May 23, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 426 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2006 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-242230- 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- 426 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...AHEAD OF A DRY LINE AND COLD FRONT. THE MAIN SEVERE RISK WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. A BRIEF TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. A LARGER SCALE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS LATE THIS EVENING...WHICH COULD AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL SEVERE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT...A FEW STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. HEAVY DOWN POURS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE SLOWER STORM MOVEMENT WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY MORNING. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...MAINLY NORTH OF A NEWTON TO EL DORADO TO CHANUTE LINE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 42 min |
| May 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 40 min |
| May 23, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 30 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.