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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2009, 4:58 PM CDT for Labette County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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 10, 2009, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2009, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Labette County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.5
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 10, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 9, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Labette, Neosho | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 7:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 11 min |
| Jun 9, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 10:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 8 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 26 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 12 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 36 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 6 more | 13 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.