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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 27, 2007, 3:20 AM CST for 15 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 27, 2007, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2007, 3:20 AM CST (09:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2007, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2007, 2:32 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:25 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 11:28 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Lincoln, Reno and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:20 AM CST | Snow Advisory | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 28 hr |
| Dec 27, 2:32 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Sumner, Woodson | 13 hr |
Nearby
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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.