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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS

May 23, 2011Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2011, 5:53 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2011, 5:53 AM CDT (10:53 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2011, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Chautauqua County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 6:34 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Chautauqua, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

952 
WUUS53 KICT 231053
SVRICT
KSC019-231200-
/O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0113.110523T1053Z-110523T1200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
553 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 551 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF CEDAR VALE...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CEDAR VALE...SEDAN...ELGIN...CHAUTAUQUA...PERU AND NIOTAZE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3712 9653 3727 9634 3716 9597 3699 9596
      3699 9652
TIME...MOT...LOC 1053Z 238DEG 26KT 3703 9648
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

JAKUB

3 follow-up statements

405 
WWUS53 KICT 231111
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
611 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

KSC019-231200-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-110523T1200Z/
CHAUTAUQUA KS-
611 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTY UNTIL 700 AM CDT...

AT 609 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF CEDAR VALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SEDAN...ELGIN...CHAUTAUQUA...PERU AND NIOTAZE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3712 9653 3727 9634 3716 9597 3699 9596
      3699 9652
TIME...MOT...LOC 1111Z 238DEG 26KT 3710 9638
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

JAKUB

871 
WWUS53 KICT 231128
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
628 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

KSC019-231200-
/O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-110523T1200Z/
CHAUTAUQUA KS-
628 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY UNTIL 700 AM CDT...

AT 627 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHAUTAUQUA...OR NEAR SEDAN...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SEDAN...PERU AND NIOTAZE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3727 9634 3716 9598 3715 9597 3699 9596
      3700 9638
TIME...MOT...LOC 1128Z 238DEG 26KT 3707 9620
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

JAKUB

698 
WWUS53 KICT 231154
SVSICT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
654 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

KSC019-231204-
/O.EXP.KICT.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-110523T1200Z/
CHAUTAUQUA KS-
654 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 700 AM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3727 9634 3716 9598 3715 9597 3699 9596
      3700 9638
TIME...MOT...LOC 1154Z 270DEG 30KT 3708 9600

$$

JAKUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	57 min
May 23, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	44 min
May 23, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	55 min
May 23, 6:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho	53 min
May 23, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	63 min
May 23, 7:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	53 min
May 23, 7:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	5 hr
May 23, 7:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	6 hr
May 23, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	44 min
May 23, 3:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	22 hr
May 23, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	9 min
May 23, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	39 min
May 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	22 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.