Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 401, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2008, 6:33 PM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 5, 2008, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Harper County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 5, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 4:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 533 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-062245- 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- 533 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT OPPRESSIVELY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TO PLAGUE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING AND HEAT ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PRIMARILY 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE OVER PRIMARILY CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AND DAMAGING 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE REGION. ON WEDNESDAY...THE BEST CHANCES FOR SUCH ACTIVITY WILL TARGET CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE CLOSER TO A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT. ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT...THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AS THE AFORE-MENTIONED FRONT SAGS DUE SOUTH INTO THESE AREAS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL AREAS ON THURSDAY...AND OVER PRIMARILY AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF I-135 THURSDAY NIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL AND MOST OF SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS FRIDAY NIGHT...THE NORTHWEST HALF OF CENTRAL KANSAS ON SATURDAY...AND OVER MOST AREAS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT MONDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE LOCALIZED NATURE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCUR...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP ES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:59 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 559 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 KSZ091-052345- HARPER- 559 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR HARPER COUNTY... AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WALDRON...OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANTHONY. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. WINDS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CARUSO
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:07 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 607 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 KSZ092-052345- SUMNER- 607 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SUMNER COUNTY... AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OXFORD...OR 9 MILES EAST OF WELLINGTON. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CARUSO
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2008Every 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.