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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 2010Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2010, 7:57 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 8, 2010, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Greenwood County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 8, 2:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2010-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1130 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2010-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
1130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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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 Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
310 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2010

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-091900-
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-
310 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2010

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH
CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. SOME
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY...WITH GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AND
WINDS TO 70 MPH. ISOLATED AND SHORT LIVED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE
DURING THE DAYLIGHT HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS IS
ROUGHLY EAST OF I-135 AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM YATES CENTER TO
WICHITA. AS THE FRONT SLOWS DOWN TONIGHT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS
POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY MORNING ACROSS
SOUTHERN KANSAS. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE.

ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE REGION OVER THE
WEEKEND. THIS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY ON
SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. AT THIS TIME STRONG STORMS APPEAR
POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
ESPECIALLY OVER THE AREA EAST OF I-135 AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM
YATES CENTER TO WICHITA.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

KETCHAM/HOWERTON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 7:08 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 7:54 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTGreenwood, Woodson5 hr
Jun 8, 8:31 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler3 hr
Jun 8, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk, Greenwood62 min
Jun 8, 9:09 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTAllen7 hr
Jun 8, 11:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChase, Greenwood, Woodson7 hr
Jun 9, 12:53 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTMcPherson, Marion9 hr
Jun 9, 1:18 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson35 hr
Jun 9, 2:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTChase, Lyon30 hr
Jun 9, 2:43 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTButler, Harvey19 hr
Jun 9, 4:02 AM CDTFlood WatchICTAllen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 10 more9 hr
Jun 9, 5:00 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChautauqua, Elk5 hr
Jun 9, 6:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChase, Greenwood, Woodson7 hr
Jun 9, 7:20 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTCowley5 hr
Jun 9, 8:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTLabette, Neosho30 hr
Jun 9, 8:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTLabette48 hr
Jun 9, 8:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTAllen, Neosho30 hr
Jun 9, 8:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTNeosho24 hr
Jun 9, 8:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTButler43 hr
Jun 9, 8:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley49 hr
Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley17 hr
Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTButler, Cowley71 hr
Jun 9, 8:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTCowley49 hr
Jun 9, 8:58 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningICTWilson43 hr
Jun 9, 9:50 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChautauqua6 hr
Jun 9, 1:09 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningICTChase, Greenwood, Woodson46 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010Every 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.