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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2010, 11:44 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 29, 2010, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2010, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Saline County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 29, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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 29, 11:11 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 11:11 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 415 PM CDT THU APR 29 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-302115- 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- 415 PM CDT THU APR 29 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING OVER MOST OF THE AREA. SEE THE LATEST WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE WITH HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE SEVERE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN SEVERE THREAT AREA IS ROUGHLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM HUTCHINSON TO MARION. STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAY DEVELOP LATER IN THE NIGHT OVER THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY STORMS ARE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SOME OF THESE MAY BE SEVERE...BUT THIS IS DEPENDENT ON THE LOCATION OF THE FRONT WHICH WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCED BY THE AMOUNT OF STORMS THURSDAY NIGHT. SLIGHT CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND MAINLY FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS. STORMS ALONG THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SATURDAY EVENING COULD BE STRONG...WITH HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE MONITOR LATER OUTLOOKS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM HUTCHINSON TO MARION. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP SCHRECK/JMC/HOWERTON
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Russell | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Rice | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 29 min |
| Apr 30, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 23 min |
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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.