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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Wichita, KS

May 26, 2010Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2010, 12:02 AM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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: May 26, 2010, 12:02 AM CDT (05:02 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Russell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 May 26, 12:00 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:00 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 10:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1041 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-262045-
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-
1041 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 3 AM FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND
NORTH OF A GREAT BEND TO MCPHERSON LINE. LARGE HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR
SIZE AND WINDS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHANCE FOR
THUNDERSTORMS. STORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG...PRODUCING HAIL
UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.

MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE CHIKASKIA RIVER
IN SUMNER COUNTY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD WARNING
AND STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA
WEDNESDAY...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS LINGERING THURSDAY.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TO THE AREA LATE IN THE WEEKEND
INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.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

JMC/KED/COX

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 7:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
757 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

KSZ072-260130-
ALLEN-
757 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 2010

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST ALLEN COUNTY...

AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF KINCAID...OR 14 MILES EAST OF
IOLA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

Local storm report, May 25, 11:32 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 11:53 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 11:58 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 11:59 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 10:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	6 hr
May 25, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	62 min
May 25, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton, Russell	57 min
May 26, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	57 min
May 26, 3:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	3 hr
May 26, 8:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	11 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.