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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 365, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2009, 6:11 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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
- Sep 3, 2009, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2009, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lincoln County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 Sep 3, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 2:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 5:38 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 538 PM CDT THU SEP 3 2009 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-042130- 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- 538 PM CDT THU SEP 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...MAINLY FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF A HUTCHINSON TO MARION LINE. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE STRONGER STORMS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE AREAWIDE OVERNIGHT...HOWEVER SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY DURING THE LATE NIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT... MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THIS ACTIVITY. FOR SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS EACH DAY...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THIS ACTIVITY. A SECOND WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...AND COULD BRING MORE CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE ENTIRE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Sep 3, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 19 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.