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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Wichita, KS

June 7, 2015Lincoln County, Saline County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2015-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 447 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2015-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 205 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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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

&&

SGS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 6:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementICTLincoln23 min
Jun 7, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.