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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2006, 6:51 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 26, 2006, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.3
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 Aug 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 6:39 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 513 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-272215- 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- 415 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...MAINLY EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. THE MAIN SEVERE RISK WILL BE FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH A FEW STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO REMAIN POSSIBLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. IT IS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON THE RISK OR MAGNITUDE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...MAINLY FOR AREAS EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP DARMOFAL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 2:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
243 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0645 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 E HALE 37.23N 95.98W
08/25/2006 CHAUTAUQUA KS EMERGENCY MNGR
A BARN WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. TWO LARGE CEDAR TREES
DOWNED. TIME IS ESTIMATED.
&&
CDBSpecial weather statement, Aug 26, 4:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 401 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 KSZ093-094-098-262145- CHAUTAUQUA-COWLEY-ELK- 401 PM CDT SAT AUG 26 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CHAUTAUQUA...COWLEY AND ELK COUNTIES... AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CEDAR VALE...OR 17 MILES WEST OF SEDAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JAKUB
Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 61 min |
| Aug 25, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 39 min |
| Aug 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 20 min |
| Aug 25, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 6:47 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 6 more | 9 hr |
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.