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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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 1, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2014, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 1, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-021900- 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- 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO OR DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL IS POSSIBLE... ALONG WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE STORMS WILL TEND TO CONSOLIDATE INTO ONE OR TWO LINES DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE STORMS WILL SPREAD MAINLY EAST AND A BIT SOUTH TONIGHT...WITH A THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS...QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS ALONG A STALLED FRONT. IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL LESS SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP NORTHWARD ACROSS GENERALLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN PROBABLE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA...WITH THIS ACTIVITY LIKELY REMAINING WELL NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...PERIODIC BOUTS OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION. THESE WILL MAINLY BE DURING THE AFTERNOON...EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS...AS THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH AND STALLS ONCE AGAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS...AND THIS EVENING ROUGHLY ALONG AND WEST OF I-35. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP HOWERTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:36 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 536 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014 KSZ032-012315- RUSSELL- 536 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... NORTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 534 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GORHAM...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RUSSELL...PARADISE...LURAY...RUSSELL AIRPORT AND WALDO. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND BECOMES SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3913 9904 3914 9866 3892 9858 3880 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 244DEG 37KT 3898 9905 CARUSO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Russell | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 6:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | ICT | Russell | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 67 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.