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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Wichita, KS

June 16, 2006Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2006, 7:55 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 16, 2006, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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
Jun 16, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 270 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: 516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jun 16, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 7:48 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
748 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-180200-
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-
748 PM CDT FRI JUN 16 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

AN ORGANIZED LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
EASTWARD THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS
EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE.

LATE TONIGHT...THE MAIN THREAT WILL TRANSITION FROM SEVERE WEATHER TO
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

ON SATURDAY...WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINS...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION WITH THE GREATER CHANCES
FOR HEAVY RAINS OCCURRING ALONG THE FLINT HILLS.

ON SATURDAY NIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE...WITH THE GREATER
CHANCES SLATED FOR OKLAHOMA BORDERING COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE.

ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL
GRADUALLY DIMINISH IN A WEST TO EAST MANNER...ESPECIALLY OVER
CENTRAL KANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD NOT BE
SEVERE.

ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS...PRIMARILY OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER IN SOUTHEAST
KANSAS ON TUESDAY...HOWEVER THESE THUNDERSTORMS...SHOULD THEY
PERSIST...SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE.

AFTER A FAIRLY BRIEF INTERMISSION TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...
THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...AND THE CHANCES ARE SLIGHT...
WOULD BE SLATED FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG...
AND NORTHWEST...OF A LINE FROM KINGMAN...TO WICHITA...TO
COTTONWOOD FALLS. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...SO ONE IS ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN FOR
SUBSEQUENT HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS...ESPECIALLY THOSE ISSUED
EARLY NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

EPS/JMC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:15 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:28 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	59 min
Jun 16, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	53 min
Jun 16, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	62 min
Jun 16, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	57 min
Jun 16, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner	65 min
Jun 16, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion, Saline	56 min
Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Reno	46 min
Jun 16, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick, Sumner	64 min
Jun 16, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Cowley	58 min
Jun 16, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006 Every 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.