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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Wichita, KS

June 18, 2013Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2013, 11:50 PM CDT for Harper County, Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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 18, 2013, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2013, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 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 04:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 83 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 18, 10:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 10:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 4:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 55 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
455 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-192200-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
455 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL...EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH ABOUT 9
PM...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM IOLA TO HILLSBORO TO
GREAT BEND. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WILL BE CAPABLE OF QUARTER SIZE
HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS.

OTHER STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TOWARD DAWN WEST OF INTERSTATE 135. THIS
ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS...WITH GUSTY WINDS
THE PRIMARY THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY THROUGH
EARLY THURSDAY GENERALLY WEST OF THE FLINT HILLS. SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY EVENING
THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY...WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS
THE PRIMARY THREATS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THE
REMAINDER OF THURSDAY GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 135.

FURTHERMORE...PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS MAY SEE A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. STRONG STORMS
APPEAR POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF SPOTTER ACTIVATION OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL...EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE
EVENING...AND AGAIN GENERALLY WEST OF THE FLINT HILLS WEDNESDAY
EVENING THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

HOWERTON/ADK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:54 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
554 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

KSZ033-182345-
LINCOLN-
554 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LINCOLN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE TOWNS OF BARNARD AND LINCOLN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE FLOODING WARNINGS...SHOULD
THE RISK FOR MINOR LOW-LAND FLOODING BECOME MORE IMMINENT.

&&

LAT...LON 3922 9793 3904 9793 3890 9812 3909 9833
      3923 9819
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 316DEG 14KT 3908 9819

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:50 PM CDT, 5 hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
650 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

KSZ049-190015-
SALINE-
650 PM CDT TUE JUN 18 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SALINE COUNTY...

AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW CAMBRIA...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
SALINA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3896 9737 3893 9736 3892 9738 3891 9737
      3870 9738 3886 9767 3897 9763 3897 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 2351Z 305DEG 21KT 3891 9754

Local storm report, Jun 18, 7:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 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 18, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	54 min
Jun 18, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	30 min
Jun 18, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	36 min
Jun 19, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.