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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this winter storm watch at Dec 17, 2011, 3:47 PM CST for 16 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Dec 19, 2011, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 2011, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 19, 2011, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2011, 4:01 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper 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, Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Dec 17, 3:15 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 3:15 PM CST, 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.