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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 2009, 3:16 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 9, 2009, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2009, 3:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cowley County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 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 Apr 9, 12:16 PM CDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 12:16 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 152 PM CDT THU APR 9 2009 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-101900- 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- 152 PM CDT THU APR 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A WINFIELD TO HOWARD TO CHANUTE LINE. VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH...AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE JUST NORTH AND WEST OF THIS AREA...ACROSS THE REST OF SOUTHEAST AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...INCLUDING GREATER WICHITA. HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY RISK IN THESE AREAS. STRONG AND GUSTY EAST TO NORTHEAST WINDS WILL RESULT IN VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY. HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL EXIST ACROSS THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WIND ADVISORY STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS. HOWEVER THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE NEITHER STRONG NOR SEVERE. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NEXT WEDNESDAY. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE NEITHER STRONG NOR SEVERE. A HIGH FIRE DANGER EXISTS OVER ALL AREAS EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 10:16 AM CDT, 5 hours before
KSZ033-101518- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1016 AM CDT THU APR 9 2009 ...BURN BAN FOR LINCOLN COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... PROLONGED DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY HAS ALLOWED GRASSES AND OTHER VEGETATION TO BECOME FULLY CURED...MAKING IT QUITE CONDUCIVE TO CATCHING FIRE. ANY FIRE THAT IGNITES WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY AND WITH EASE...ESPECIALLY DURING WARM AND BREEZY CONDITIONS. AS A RESULT...THE LINCOLN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HAVE EXTENDED THE BURN BAN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED TO DO AGRICULTURAL BURNING SHOULD CONTACT THEIR LOCAL FIRE CHIEF FOR MORE INFORMATION. KETCHAM
Special weather statement, Apr 9, 3:11 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 311 PM CDT THU APR 9 2009 KSZ093-092045- COWLEY- 311 PM CDT THU APR 9 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF COWLEY COUNTY... AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHILOCCO...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE 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. KLEINSASSER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:27 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 50 min |
| Apr 9, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 33 min |
| Apr 9, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 29 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.