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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this fire weather watch at Apr 26, 2014, 3:46 AM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2014, 3:46 AM CDT (08:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 3790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 26, 3:38 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:38 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 4:11 PM CDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 411 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2014 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-262115- 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- 411 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT VERY HIGH TO EXTREME GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE REGION THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. FIRE DANGER WILL BE HIGHEST GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RED FLAG WARNING FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS BY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ALONG A DRY-LINE. SEVERE SUPER-CELL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE... DESTRUCTIVE WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND EVEN TORNADOES. THE GREATEST RISK IS EXPECTED TO BE ALONG AND WEST OF I-135. THE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS MAY SHIFT AS FAR EAST AS THE KANSAS TURNPIKE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS SATURDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN RISK WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE DRY-LINE WILL SURGE EAST ON SUNDAY...WITH A CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE FLINT HILLS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...MAINLY EAST OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE. LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 MPH. WHILE A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BECOME LINEAR QUICKLY WHICH WOULD DIMINISH THOSE CHANCES. VERY HIGH GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER IS EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON...WITH EXTREME FIRE DANGER POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS. PLEASE REFER TO THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR DETAILS. VERY HIGH TO EXTREME FIRE DANGER IS EXPECTED AGAIN ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. VERY HIGH GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP BILLINGS WRIGHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:50 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 30 hr |
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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.