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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Wichita, KS

June 25, 2009Barton County, Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2009, 4:52 PM CDT for Barton County, Ellsworth County, Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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 25, 2009, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2009, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Rice County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2009-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 561 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2009-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
561 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Jun 25, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
219 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009

.DISCUSSION...
HIGH HEAT AND HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL CONTINUE FOR TWO MORE DAYS
ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION BEFORE A COLD FRONT ARRIVES ON
SATURDAY...THUS PROVIDING SOME RELIEF FROM THE HEAT AND BRINGING
CHANCES OF RAIN TO KANSAS.

TONIGHT
WE WILL ISSUE A SHORT FUSED HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE REMAINING
COUNTIES ACROSS CENTRAL/SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 7PM AS HEAT
INDICES APPROACH 105 DEGREES. LATEST SURFACE DATA SHOWS A WEAK
BOUNDARY MIGRATING SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS TOWARDS
CENTRAL KANSAS. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ALONG
THIS BOUNDARY WITH ADDITIONAL DAYTIME HEATING...BUT ANY ACTIVITY
SHOULD TAPER OFF A FEW HOURS AFTER SUNSET. MEANWHILE UPSLOPE FLOW
IS COMMENCING OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA/NORTHWEST KANSAS THIS
AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THIS WOULD BE
A FAVORED AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING
THEN POSSIBLY CONGEAL INTO A MCS LATER TONIGHT. THE MCS WOULD THEN
TRACK EASTWARD OVER NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. THE
BULK OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70...BUT
SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY COULD AFFECT LOCATIONS NEAR INTERSTATE 70 IN
CENTRAL KANSAS VERY LATE TONIGHT.

FRI-SUN
THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY
OVER KANSAS...BUT RELIEF IS ON THE WAY AS SATELLITE WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY SHOWS THE NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE NORTHWEST
REGION. THIS SYSTEM WILL TRACK EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS
ON SATURDAY AND DEEPEN OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION BY SUNDAY. THIS
WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD ACROSS KANSAS WITH CHANCES OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND
SATURDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT WILL ALSO BRING AN END TO THE HEAT WAVE AS
DAYTIME TEMPERATURES DROP TO MORE SEASONAL VALUES FOR HIGHS ON
SUNDAY. WE WILL EXTEND THE HEAT WARNING HEADLINES FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ANOTHER 24HRS UNTIL THE FRONT CLEARS THE AREA
BY SATURDAY EVENING.

EXTENDED: MON-THU
WE WILL SEE A GRADUAL WARMING TREND FOR TEMPERATURES FROM MONDAY
INTO WEDNESDAY...AS WARMER AIR FROM THE WEST BEGINS TO SPREAD EASTWARD
ACROSS THE REGION. THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN WILL TRANSITION FROM A
NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME TO WESTERLY FLOW BY THURSDAY. DRY WEATHER IS
EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THIS PERIOD BUT WE COULD SEE SOME PRECIPITATION
CHANCES ENTER INTO THE PICTURE FOR CENTRAL KANSAS BY THURSDAY...AS
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SAGS SOUTHWARD INTO THE VICINITY.

JAKUB

.AVIATION...18Z TAFS KRSL/KSLN/KHUT/KICT/KCNU
VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THRU THE FORECAST VALID PERIOD.
SURFACE TROF ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS MAY BE FOCUS FOR ISOLATED
CONVECTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF CONVECTION DEVELOPS
IT COULD FORCE THIS BOUNDARY SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND A
PORTION OF THE FLINT HILLS THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED STORMS
FESTERING UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT...MAINLY ALONG/NORTH OF A KGBD-KEWK
TO KCNU LINE. BRIEF IFR/MVFR CAT CIGS/VSBYS POSSIBLE WITH ANY
CONVECTION...BUT THE CONDITIONAL/ISOLATED NATURE ARE TOO LOW TO
PLACE IN TAFS. OTHERWISE LIGHT WINDS AND VFR CONDITIONS THRU THE
PERIOD.

KED

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
WICHITA-KICT    75 101  75 102 /  10  10  10  20
HUTCHINSON      74 101  74  99 /  10  10  10  20
NEWTON          75 100  74 100 /  20  10  10  20
ELDORADO        75 100  75 100 /  10  10  10  20
WINFIELD-KWLD   75 100  76 102 /  10  10  10  20
RUSSELL         72 101  73  93 /  20  20  10  20
GREAT BEND      73 101  73  95 /  20  20  10  20
SALINA          75 102  76  97 /  20  20  10  20
MCPHERSON       74 101  75  98 /  20  10  10  20
COFFEYVILLE     75  99  75 100 /  10  10  10  10
CHANUTE         74  99  74 100 /  20  10  10  10
IOLA            75  99  74  99 /  20  10  10  20
PARSONS-KPPF    74  98  75 100 /  10  10  10  10

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR KSZ052-053-
068>072-083-092>096-098>100.

EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING UNTIL 7 PM CDT FRIDAY FOR KSZ049-051.

&&
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
337 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009

KSZ048-050-252100-
ELLSWORTH-RICE-
337 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2009

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR ELLSWORTH AND RICE COUNTIES...

AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GENESEO...OR 18 MILES SOUTH OF
ELLSWORTH...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

DARMOFAL
Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:09 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 2:21 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryICTBarton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Lincoln, Reno and 2 more5 hr
Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice26 min
Jun 25, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice66 min
Jun 25, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline65 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.