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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 2008Chase County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2008, 6:50 AM CDT for Chase County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 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 25, 2008, 6:50 AM CDT (11:50 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2008, 7:12 AM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Chase County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 748 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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 25, 5:58 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 5:58 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 5:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 5:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 5:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 5:51 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 6:13 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 6:21 AM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 6:42 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	47 min
May 24, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	51 min
May 24, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	47 min
May 24, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	50 min
May 24, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	63 min
May 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner	48 min
May 25, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	59 min
May 25, 2:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	4 hr
May 25, 4:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	6 hr
May 25, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	51 min
May 25, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	48 min
May 25, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	63 min
May 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	18 min
May 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	55 min
May 25, 4:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	5 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	Barton, Chase, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Marion and 3 more	11 hr
May 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	50 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Russell	5 hr
May 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	24 min
May 25, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	23 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Lincoln	27 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	55 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	4 hr
May 25, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	59 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Russell	32 min
May 25, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	66 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	38 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	52 min
May 25, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	4 hr
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	57 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Russell	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.