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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Wichita, KS

May 29, 2006Saline County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2006-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1944 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2006-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, May 29, 5:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
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

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 10:27 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln55 min
May 29, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton56 min
May 29, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice36 min
May 29, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner48 min
May 29, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice22 min
May 29, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick22 min
May 30, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline17 min
May 30, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson66 min
May 30, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman62 min
May 30, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, McPherson, Marion67 min
May 30, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman29 min
May 30, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion37 min
May 30, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno24 min
May 30, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick18 min
May 30, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper63 min
May 30, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick59 min
May 30, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper34 min
May 30, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase27 min
May 30, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner54 min

Nearby

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.