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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Wichita, KS

November 16, 2015Barton County, Russell County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2015, 10:37 PM CST for Barton County, Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: Nov 16, 2015, 10:37 PM CST (04:37 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2015, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Barton County, KS, Russell County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Nov 16, 8:17 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 994 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 351 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 11.3

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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 Nov 16, 9:03 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 9:03 PM CST, 1 hour 34 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
Nov 16, 11:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	28 min
Nov 17, 12:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Rice	64 min
Nov 17, 12:25 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper	35 min
Nov 17, 12:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	47 min
Nov 17, 1:22 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Sedgwick and 1 more	38 min
Nov 17, 1:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	42 min
Nov 17, 2:04 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Butler, Chase, Cowley, Harvey, McPherson, Marion and 2 more	56 min
Nov 17, 2:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	25 min
Nov 17, 2:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood	66 min
Nov 17, 3:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson	59 min
Nov 17, 3:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	25 min
Nov 17, 3:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	34 min
Nov 17, 4:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette, Neosho	22 min

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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.