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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2009, 3:29 PM CDT for Allen County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 8, 2009, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2009, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Allen County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 Jul 8, 3:24 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:24 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:31 AM CDT, 9 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 531 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2009 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-090945- 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- 531 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH DIME SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE...FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A SALINA TO EL DORADO TO SEDAN LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY MORNING...FOR AREAS MAINLY EAST OF THE TURNPIKE. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB INTO THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON...AND MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THIS HEAT MAY CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. BESIDES THE HEAT...THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEEKEND...MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED/BILLINGS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 316 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2009 KSZ072-082045- ALLEN- 316 PM CDT WED JUL 8 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR ALLEN COUNTY... AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GARNETT...OR 23 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA... AND MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH. QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 75 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN EASTERN ALLEN COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IF THE STORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS. CARUSO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Marion | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 17 min |
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.