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Wind Chill Advisory 6, NWS Wichita, KS

March 2, 201426 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 2, 2014, 4:43 AM CST for 26 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2014, 4:43 AM CST (10:43 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 3, 2014, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

All 26 counties

Allen County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 825 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 wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Mar 2, 3:37 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 3:37 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 1, 4:24 PM CST, 12 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
424 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2014

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-022230-
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-
424 PM CST SAT MAR 1 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A WINTER STORM WILL AFFECT THE AREA...WITH THE LIGHT WINTRY MIX
INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST
WINTER STORM WARNING AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DETAILS.

VERY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN WIND CHILLS OF 10 BELOW TO
20 BELOW ZERO ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH SUB-ZERO
WINDS CHILLS ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA ON SUNDAY WITH
SIGNIFICANT SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED. PLEASE REFER TO
THE LATEST WINTER STORM WARNING AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR
DETAILS.

FROM SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...WIND CHILLS OF 10 BELOW TO
20 BELOW ZERO ARE FORECAST. WIND CHILLS BETWEEN ZERO AND 5 BELOW
ZERO ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY MORNING ROUGHLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 54.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW ON WEDNESDAY
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. NO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT...HOWEVER
SNOW...SLEET AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

&&

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 1, 11:05 PM CST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1105 PM CST SAT MAR 01 2014

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

1105 PM     SLEET            MARION                  38.35N 97.02W
03/01/2014  E0.50 INCH       MARION             KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            ESTIMATED 1/2 INCH OF SLEET WITH 1/4 OF SNOW ON THE
            GROUND.

&&

JMBW

Local storm report, Mar 2, 12:07 AM CST, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 2, 1:00 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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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.