Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2010, 6:25 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 23, 2010, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2010, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cowley County, KS, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1596 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 Jun 23, 3:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 414 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-242115- 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- 414 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HEAT INDICES UP TO 105 DEGREES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING AND HEAT ADVISORY FOR FURTHER DETAILS. SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE CORRIDOR THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE WILL BE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD WANE BY LATER THIS EVENING...ALTHOUGH LINGERING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN KANSAS. THIS ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY CHANCES FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ON THURSDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAT INDICES IN THE LOW 100S ARE ANTICIPATED DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES MAY RETURN ACROSS THE AREA FOR SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. STRONG TO AT LEAST MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS APPEAR POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED/ADK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 6:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 610 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 KSZ092-093-232345- COWLEY-SUMNER- 610 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR COWLEY AND SUMNER COUNTIES... AT 607 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR OXFORD...OR 7 MILES WEST OF WINFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JAKUB
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.