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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2010, 7:38 PM CDT for Butler County, Elk County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 6, 2010, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2010, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.9
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 6, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 6:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 106 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-071200- 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- 106 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE...AS A DRYLINE AND COLD FRONT PUSH THROUGH THE AREA. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL TRANSITION TO MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES RAPIDLY EAST. WINDS ARE GOING TO BE GUSTY ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX IS EXPECTED TO CLIMB TO EXTREME ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST RED FLAG WARNING FOR DETAILS. OUTSIDE OF THE RED FLAG WARNING...GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL BE IN THE VERY HIGH CATEGORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL BE VERY HIGH ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AND THE FLINT HILLS ON WEDNESDAY. VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS TO THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...A FEW STRONG STORMS LOOK POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP SCHRECK/JMC
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Local storm report, Apr 6, 6:39 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 37 min |
| Apr 6, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Apr 6, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson | 58 min |
| Apr 6, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:03 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey and 10 more | 17 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.