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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2009, 5:40 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 9, 2009, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2009, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Allen County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
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 Jun 9, 3:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 416 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-102115- 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- 416 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS IN PROGRESS IN EASTERN KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST. HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. A WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO STALL OUT ALONG A MARION TO HUTCHINSON LINE DURING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR THE ATMOSPHERE TO BECOME QUITE VOLATILE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS A DRYLINE MOVES IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE GREATEST THREAT OF STORMS LOOKS TO BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE VERY LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN BASEBALL SIZE...DAMAGING SEVERE WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES. THE GREATEST THREAT AREA SHOULD BE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE NORTHEAST OF THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BEGIN TO PUSH SOUTHEAST AS A COLD FRONT AND BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS THURSDAY MORNING. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE STRONG OR SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FROM THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT DURING THIS TIME FRAME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP SCHRECK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 521 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 KSZ070-092245- GREENWOOD- 521 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY... AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUREKA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND 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. BILLINGS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 523 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 KSZ095-092300- WILSON- 523 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR WILSON COUNTY... AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FREDONIA...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF YATES CENTER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND 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. BILLINGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 18 min |
| Jun 9, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 55 min |
| Jun 9, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 3:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.