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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 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
- May 6, 2010, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2010, 9:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 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 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 522 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 May 6, 6:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 425 PM CDT THU MAY 6 2010 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-072130- 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- 425 PM CDT THU MAY 6 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. THE PRIMARY RISKS WILL BE LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL COULD AFFECT AREAS AS FAR SOUTH AS HIGHWAY 400. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS BEHIND A COLD FRONT LATE TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO LATEST WIND ADVISORY FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE GUSTY NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WIND ADVISORY FOR MORE DETAILS. PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST ACROSS THE AREA FROM SUNDAY INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. THERE IS POTENTIAL THAT SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER COULD IMPACT SOME OF THE AREA...PLEASE CHECK LATER FORECASTS AND OUTLOOKS FOR UPDATES AND FURTHER DETAILS ON THE POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP KED
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 6, 8:37 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 837 PM CDT THU MAY 6 2010 KSZ049-051-070215- MCPHERSON-SALINE- 837 PM CDT THU MAY 6 2010 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MCPHERSON AND SALINE COUNTIES... AT 837 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR LINDSBORG...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED 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. BILLINGS
Local storm report, May 6, 9:10 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 28 min |
| May 7, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 26 min |
| May 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice, Russell, Saline | 16 hr |
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.