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High Wind Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS

May 8, 2014Chautauqua County, Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this high wind warning at May 8, 2014, 2:45 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Labette County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2014, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2014, 4:46 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

311 
WWUS73 KICT 080745
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
245 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

KSZ098>100-081000-
/O.NEW.KICT.HW.W.0007.140508T0745Z-140508T1000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SEDAN...COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...
PARSONS
245 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING. 


* TIMING...DAMAGING WINDS FROM DECAYING THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT
  PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH 4 AM.

* WINDS...GUSTING TO 65 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE.

* IMPACTS...WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES WILL BE POSSIBLE.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED.  WINDS THIS STRONG CAN CAUSE PROPERTY
DAMAGE.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

237 
WWUS73 KICT 080946
NPWICT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
446 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

KSZ098>100-081100-
/O.CAN.KICT.HW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-140508T1000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SEDAN...COFFEYVILLE...INDEPENDENCE...
PARSONS
446 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH
WIND WARNING. 

HIGH WIND CONDITIONS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE AREA...THEREFORE THE
HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell	26 min
May 7, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	26 min
May 7, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	28 min
May 7, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Rice	48 min
May 7, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	44 min
May 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	37 min
May 7, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln	45 min
May 7, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Saline	67 min
May 7, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	33 min
May 7, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	26 min
May 7, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Rice	41 min
May 8, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	33 min
May 8, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Greenwood	38 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	27 min
May 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk	32 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	34 min
May 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	32 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.