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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this ice storm warning at Jan 12, 2007, 6:25 AM CST for 7 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2007, 6:25 AM CST (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2007, 2:27 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Jan 12, 3:21 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 3:21 AM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 5:25 AM CST, 1 hour before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 525 AM CST FRI JAN 12 2007 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-131200- 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- 525 AM CST FRI JAN 12 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES AND WATCHES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET MAY CHANGE TO SNOW ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. SOME SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS BEFORE ENDING SUNDAY NIGHT WHILE THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA COULD SEE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS. SEE THE LATEST WINTER STORM WATCH FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .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 COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 3:51 AM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:27 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 51 hr |
Nearby
Ice Storm Warnings in Kansas, 2007Every ice storm warning in 2007
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.