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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

March 19, 201020 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm warning at Mar 19, 2010, 3:39 PM CDT for 20 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 19, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2010, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 19, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2010, 12:46 PM CDT
In force: 42 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Allen County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 19, 3:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 5:44 AM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
544 AM CDT FRI MAR 19 2010

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-201045-
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-
544 AM CDT FRI MAR 19 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SIGNIFICANT WINTER WEATHER WILL AFFECT THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY AND
TONIGHT. CHECK THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER STATEMENT FOR INFORMATION
ON THIS WINTER STORM.

SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED
GENERALLY WEST OF I-35. THE WINDS WILL BRIEFLY INCREASE
IMMEDIATELY IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT...BUT WILL ALSO INCREASE
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE LOW DEEPENS.

THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX WILL BE VERY HIGH THIS MORNING IN
CENTRAL KANSAS...AND THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SNOW WILL PERSIST OVER MOST OF THE AREA INTO SATURDAY...AND INTO SUNDAY
OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER STATEMENT
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR
TONIGHT...HOWEVER SNOWFALL REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

HOWERTON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 5:08 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more	43 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.