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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Wichita, KS

June 23, 2010Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2010-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1596 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
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

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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 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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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

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.