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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Wichita, KS

September 10, 201210 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this fire weather watch at Sep 10, 2012, 4:19 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Sep 11, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 2012, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 11, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Sep 11, 2012, 4:05 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Marion County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2012-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lamont, OK at 12:00Z on 2012-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 4:19 PM CDTRed Flag WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell and 1 more26 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.