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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Wichita, KS

June 5, 2013Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2013, 1:54 AM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2013, 1:54 AM CDT (06:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 6:42 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:42 PM CDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	30 min
Jun 5, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	38 min
Jun 5, 12:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	31 min
Jun 5, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	30 min
Jun 5, 1:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 5, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	27 min
Jun 5, 2:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	37 min
Jun 5, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	33 min
Jun 5, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	30 min
Jun 5, 2:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	38 min
Jun 5, 3:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	29 min
Jun 5, 3:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
Jun 5, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk	57 min
Jun 5, 5:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.