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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 333, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2009, 8:40 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 16, 2009, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2009, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Butler County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 16, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 650 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 2009 KSZ092-093-170030- COWLEY-SUMNER- 650 PM CDT SUN AUG 16 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR WESTERN COWLEY AND EASTERN SUMNER COUNTIES... AT 647 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM UDALL TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRAMAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HOWERTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 8:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 10 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sumner | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 8:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 12 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Sumner | 53 min |
| Aug 17, 9:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 19 min |
| Aug 17, 11:48 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 11 more | 38 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.