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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2008, 2:57 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 11:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1155 AM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-261015- 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- 1155 AM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING OVER CENTRAL KANSAS. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN A FEW TORNADOES. THE GREATEST THREAT APPEARS TO BE NORTHWEST OF A HUTCHINSON TO HILLSBORO LINE. THE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AS THE CONVECTION IN CENTRAL KANSAS EVOLVES INTO A LINEAR COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND BEGINS TO PROPAGATE EAST-SOUTHEAST. THIS LINE OF STORMS COULD ALSO BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. A LOCALIZED FLOODING THREAT WILL ALSO EXIST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN LOOKS TO CONTINUE FROM MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AS RICH GULF MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE AREA. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS OVER THIS TIME PERIOD WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER DURING THIS TIME WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. ADDITIONALLY...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. WITH THE ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED THROUGH THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND...IT IS ADVISED TO CHECK ADDITIONAL OUTLOOKS AS WE CONTINUE TO REFINE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AREAS. ALSO...STAY TUNED FOR ANY WATCHES AND WARNINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP SCHRECK/KETCHAM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:53 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 253 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 KSZ032-252100- RUSSELL- 253 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR RUSSELL COUNTY... AT 248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF GALATIA...OR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 31 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. KRC
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, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 22 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
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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.