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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2006, 11:02 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2006, 11:02 PM CDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2006, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 May 29, 10:57 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 10:57 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 533 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2006 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-302345- 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- 533 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROUGHLY SALINA TO HUTCHINSON TO MEDICINE LODGE. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY...SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS THROUGH MIDNIGHT WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL ALSO BE A THREAT DUE TO SLOW STORM MOVEMENT. OTHER MORE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SOUTHEAST OF THE TURNPIKE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EVOLVE INTO A SLOW MOVING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX AS THE OVERNIGHT PROGRESSES. THE SEVERE HAIL AND WIND THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH BY MIDNIGHT...BUT MAY TRANSITION TO A HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING THREAT ACROSS PRIMARILY SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...AS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY BECOMES STATIONARY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. WITH THE BOUNDARY IN THE AREA AND PLENTY OF INSTABILITY...ANY OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND A FEW TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS SOME STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS TIME PERIOD. THE EXACT PLACEMENT OF STORMS AND SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE REFINED WITH LATER FORECASTS. SO IT IS ADVISED TO CHECK LATER FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS PRIMARILY CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP BDK/CDB/ADK
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Local storm report, May 29, 10:27 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 55 min |
| May 29, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 56 min |
| May 29, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 36 min |
| May 29, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 48 min |
| May 29, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 22 min |
| May 29, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 22 min |
| May 30, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 17 min |
| May 30, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 66 min |
| May 30, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| May 30, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 67 min |
| May 30, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 29 min |
| May 30, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 37 min |
| May 30, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 24 min |
| May 30, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 18 min |
| May 30, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| May 30, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| May 30, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 34 min |
| May 30, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 27 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 54 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.