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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm watch at Mar 6, 2011, 4:13 AM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 8, 2011, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2011, 4:13 AM CST (10:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2011, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2011, 3:24 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Russell County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 watch went out at Mar 6, 3:25 AM CST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 3:25 AM CST, 48 minutes before
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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.