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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2010, 4:32 PM CDT for Harper 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
- Jul 5, 2010, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2010, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Harper County, KS
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 12 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:23 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 12 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 36 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Elk | 30 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 9 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 29 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 8 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Neosho | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 8 hr |
| Jul 5, 7:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Saline | 25 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 30 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Wilson | 10 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 55 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 19 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Sumner | 50 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:05 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 72 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | McPherson | 23 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion, Reno, Sedgwick | 18 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:32 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | ICT | Harvey | 57 hr |
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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.