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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Wichita, KS
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.
- 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
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. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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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
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2:21 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Lincoln, Reno and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 65 min |
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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.