Alert archive / Kansas / Winter Storm Watches in 2011
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm watch at Jan 7, 2011, 3:55 PM CST for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 9, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2011, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2011, 3:25 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2:50 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 16 more | 13 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.