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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2015, 6:36 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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 7, 2015, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lincoln County, KS, Saline County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 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 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 5:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 513 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015 KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-082215- 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- 513 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG A COLD MOVING SOUTHEAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND QUARTER SIZED HAIL. THE GREATEST RISK IS ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF I-35. MINOR FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE AREA WIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT SOUTHEAST KANSAS MONDAY MORNING. THESE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO STRONG OR SEVERE. ANOTHER FRONT WILL MEANDER AROUND THE AREA FROM THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE PERIODIC CHANCES FOR AT LEAST STRONG STORMS DURING THIS PERIOD...ALONG WITH SOME POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/ HOWERTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 622 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015 KSZ033-072345- LINCOLN KS- 622 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR LINCOLN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LINCOLN...BEVERLY AND BARNARD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3899 9793 3903 9823 3921 9821 3922 9793 TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 274DEG 27KT 3912 9813 ES
Local storm report, Jun 7, 6:30 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
630 PM CDT SUN JUN 07 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0629 PM HAIL 5 NE LINCOLN 39.09N 98.08W
06/07/2015 E0.25 INCH LINCOLN KS TRAINED SPOTTER
PEA SIZE HAIL WITH WINDS ESTIMATED AT 45 MPH
&&
SGSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 34 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.