Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2009, 6:13 PM CDT for Cowley County, Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2009, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 4:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 416 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-282130- 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 SAT JUN 27 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PERSIST UNTIL THIS EVENING. PLEASE REFER TO LATEST HEAT WARNING FOR MORE DETAILS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS IN CENTRAL OR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AS THEY SPREAD SOUTHEAST. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SPREAD INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE MORE ORGANIZED STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HEAT WILL RETURN TO THE AREA BY LATE IN THE WEEK...WITH HEAT INDICES AROUND THE CENTURY MARK STARTING THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT DUE TO THE ISOLATED AND SHORT-LIVED NATURE OF THE SEVERE THREAT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP HOWERTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 5:30 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 530 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 KSZ069-093-094-272300- BUTLER-COWLEY-ELK- 530 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR BUTLER...COWLEY AND ELK COUNTIES... AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF LATHAM...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUREKA...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. DIME 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. LAWSON
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:04 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 604 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 KSZ093-094-272330- COWLEY-ELK- 604 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR COWLEY AND ELK COUNTIES... AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRENOLA...OR 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDAN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DIME 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. LAWSON
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:08 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 608 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 KSZ070-272345- GREENWOOD- 608 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY... AT 604 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SEVERY...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF EUREKA...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. DIME 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. LAWSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 43 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.