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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Wichita, KS

May 23, 2008Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2008, 12:49 AM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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: May 23, 2008, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2008, 1:17 AM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 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
May 22, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 3001 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 11.9

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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 May 23, 12:46 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 12:46 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 11:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1133 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1116 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 SSW GODDARD           37.59N 97.61W
05/22/2008  M60 MPH          SEDGWICK           KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CDB

Local storm report, May 22, 11:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1138 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG SPIVEY                  37.45N 98.17W
05/22/2008                   KINGMAN            KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            THE OLD SPIVEY HIGH SCHOOL TIN ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF. WINDS
            ESTIMATED AT AROUND 60 MPH.

&&

CDB

Local storm report, May 22, 11:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1146 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1116 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BAS 37.62N 97.27W
05/22/2008  M62 MPH          SEDGWICK           KS   ASOS

            62 MPH WIND GUST MEASURED AT THE BASE.

&&

CDB

Local storm report, May 22, 11:59 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1159 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1143 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST NORTHEAST WICHITA AND J 37.75N 97.22W
05/22/2008  M59 MPH          SEDGWICK           KS   ASOS

&&

CDB

Special weather statement, May 23, 12:00 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1200 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008

KSZ069-093-230545-
BUTLER-COWLEY-
1200 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR BUTLER AND COWLEY COUNTIES...

AT 1157 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF BURDEN...OR 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 37 MPH.

PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE LIGHTNING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS
FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS REFRAIN FROM USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND
STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE EXCEPT IF NECESSARY.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

ES

Local storm report, May 23, 12:17 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1217 AM CDT FRI MAY 23 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1211 AM     TSTM WND GST     6 WNW ATLANTA           37.46N 96.87W
05/23/2008  E60 MPH          COWLEY             KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER ESTIMATED AT LEAST 60 MPH WIND. HE ALSO
            REPORTED SMALL HAIL BEING DRIVEN BY THE WINDS.

&&

CDB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 10:31 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	Harper, Sedgwick, Sumner	2 hr
May 22, 11:40 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 2 more	2 hr
May 23, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	53 min
May 23, 2:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more	5 hr
May 23, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	57 min
May 23, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	66 min
May 23, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	67 min
May 23, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	45 min
May 23, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	58 min
May 23, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	36 min
May 23, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	35 min
May 23, 9:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	4 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.