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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS

November 29, 2007Barton County, Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm watch at Nov 29, 2007, 3:58 PM CST for Barton County, Lincoln County, Russell County, Kansas. It took effect at Nov 30, 2007, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 29, 2007, 3:58 PM CST (21:58 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 30, 2007, 9:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 30, 2007, 3:41 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2007-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.