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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Wichita, KS

July 26, 2006Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2006, 7:04 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 26, 2006, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2006, 7:31 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -48 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 Jul 26, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 6:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
600 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-280000-
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-
600 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

FOR THIS EVENING...HEAT INDICES WILL REACH 100 TO 104 DEGREES OVER
ALL AREAS EXCEPT MUCH OF RUSSELL COUNTY.

FOR TONIGHT...THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL AREAS. A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS...ESPECIALLY THIS
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

FOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON...HEAT INDICES MAY REACH 100 TO 102 DEGREES
IN AREAS GENERALLY ALONG...AND SOUTHWEST...OF A LINE FROM HUTCHINSON
TO WELLINGTON.

FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...THERE IS A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL AREAS. HOWEVER...THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT
FORECAST TO BE EITHER STRONG OR SEVERE.

FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON...HEAT INDICES MAY REACH AROUND 100 DEGREES IN
AREAS GENERALLY ALONG...AND WEST...OF A LINE FROM LINCOLN...TO
HUTCHINSON...TO WELLINGTON.

FOR FRIDAY...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER AREAS
GENERALLY ALONG...AND EAST...OF A LINE FROM SALINA TO HUTCHINSON TO
ANTHONY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT FORECAST TO BE EITHER STRONG OR
SEVERE.

FROM SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES WILL REACH
100 TO 104 DEGREES...WITH THE HIGHEST HEAT INDICES...APPROACHING
105 DEGREES...OCCURRING IN ALL AREAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

&&

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

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:06 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:22 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:35 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
635 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

KSZ083-092-270000-
SEDGWICK-SUMNER-
635 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR SEDGWICK AND SUMNER COUNTIES...

AT 634 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEARWATER...OR 9 MILES
NORTH OF WELLINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF PERTH...ALSO MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...AS WELL AS OUTFLOW
FROM A FEW OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN SEDGWICK
AND SUMNER COUNTIES.

DARMOFAL

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:59 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
659 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

KSZ083-092-270015-
SEDGWICK-SUMNER-
659 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2006

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR SOUTHERN SEDGWICK AND SUMNER COUNTIES...

AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLE PLAINE...OR 11 MILES
NORTH OF WELLINGTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER STORMS
WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR MULVANE SOUTHWARD INTO
SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS ACROSS
SOUTHERN SEDGWICK AND SUMNER COUNTIES.

DARMOFAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	28 min
Jul 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	40 min
Jul 26, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	43 min
Jul 26, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	29 min
Jul 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	29 min
Jul 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	30 min
Jul 27, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	18 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.