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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Wichita, KS

August 7, 20144 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2014, 12:26 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 7, 2014, 12:26 AM CDT (05:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2014, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 Aug 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:06 AM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 7:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
705 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-080015-
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-
705 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING INTO
TONIGHT...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 135. A FEW STRONG
STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THURSDAY THROUGH THIS
WEEKEND. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE PRIMARILY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL
HAIL.

HEAT INDICES OF NEAR 100 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE
AFTERNOON HOURS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.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

JMC/KETCHAM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 11:27 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1127 PM CDT WED AUG 06 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1038 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BENTON                  37.79N 97.11W
08/06/2014                   BUTLER             KS   PUBLIC

            6 TO 7 FOOT TREE WITH A 6 INCH DIAMETER SNAPPED DUE TO
            WINDS. A FULL GARBAGE CAN BLOWN 75 YARDS DOWN THE STREET.
            POWER IS OUT BETWEEN BENTON AND THE BRIAR CLIFF ADDITION.
            REPORTS VIA TWITTER.

&&

JMR

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 11:29 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1129 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

KSZ068-083-070500-
HARVEY-SEDGWICK-
1129 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A

* SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HARVEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  NORTHERN SEDGWICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1126 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
  WEST OF WHITEWATER TO MOUNT HOPE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DOWNTOWN WICHITA...ANDALE...COLWICH...VALLEY CENTER...MAIZE...
  GODDARD...PARK CITY...WEST WICHITA...NORTHEAST WICHITA...WICHITA
  MID CONTINENT AIRPORT...EAST WICHITA...GARDEN PLAIN...KECHI...BEL
  AIRE AND JABARA AIRPORT.

WINDS TO 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3765 9716 3764 9769 3791 9770 3809 9716
TIME...MOT...LOC 0428Z 312DEG 23KT 3798 9724 3784 9761

HAYES

Local storm report, Aug 7, 12:11 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 12:12 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 12:15 AM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 12:26 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 6, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
Aug 6, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	28 min
Aug 6, 8:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase, Harvey	37 min
Aug 6, 10:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Harvey	26 min
Aug 6, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler	36 min
Aug 6, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	31 min
Aug 6, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	40 min
Aug 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	30 min
Aug 7, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	49 min
Aug 7, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	35 min
Aug 7, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	24 min
Aug 7, 1:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	35 min
Aug 7, 2:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sumner	31 min
Aug 7, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	27 min
Aug 7, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	31 min
Aug 7, 4:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	24 min
Aug 7, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.