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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2017, 5:10 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2017, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2017, 5:49 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 5:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Nnw Clearwater, KS | OFF DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE |
| Mar 24, 5:12 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Clearwater, KS | |
| Mar 24, 5:19 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 6 Ese Goddard, KS | |
| Mar 24, 5:29 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Goddard, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
614 WUUS53 KICT 242210 SVRICT KSC173-242300- /O.NEW.KICT.SV.W.0021.170324T2210Z-170324T2300Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Wichita KS 510 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017 The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Sedgwick County in south central Kansas... * Until 600 PM CDT * At 510 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Clearwater, moving north at 20 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Wichita, Goddard, Maize, Clearwater, Colwich, Andale, West Wichita, Eisenhower National Airport and Lake Afton. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3749 9742 3748 9758 3778 9769 3782 9742 TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 176DEG 16KT 3756 9751 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JAKUB
3 follow-up statements
761 WWUS53 KICT 242221 SVSICT Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Wichita KS 521 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017 KSC173-242300- /O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-170324T2300Z/ Sedgwick KS- 521 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY... At 521 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Eisenhower National Airport, or near Goddard, moving north at 20 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include... Wichita, Goddard, Maize, Colwich, Andale, West Wichita, Eisenhower National Airport and Lake Afton. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3755 9742 3755 9761 3778 9769 3782 9742 TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 181DEG 17KT 3762 9750 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JAKUB
165 WWUS53 KICT 242236 SVSICT Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Wichita KS 536 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017 KSC173-242300- /O.CON.KICT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-170324T2300Z/ Sedgwick KS- 536 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY... At 536 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over West Wichita, or near Goddard, moving north at 20 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include... Wichita, Goddard, Maize, Colwich, Andale, West Wichita and Eisenhower National Airport. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3765 9742 3765 9763 3778 9769 3782 9742 TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 176DEG 16KT 3769 9751 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ JAKUB
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WWUS53 KICT 242249
SVSICT
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wichita KS
549 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017
KSC173-242259-
/O.CAN.KICT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-170324T2300Z/
Sedgwick KS-
549 PM CDT FRI MAR 24 2017
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL SEDGWICK COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However small hail is
still possible with this thunderstorm.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
south central Kansas.
LAT...LON 3765 9742 3765 9763 3778 9769 3782 9742
TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 176DEG 16KT 3775 9752
$$
JAKUBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 3:30 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ICT | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Cowley | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sumner | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 24 min |
| Mar 24, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 37 min |
| Mar 24, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 21 min |
| Mar 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Ellsworth | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Harvey | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Saline | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 29 min |
| Mar 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 5:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 37 min |
| Mar 24, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 6:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Reno | 42 min |
| Mar 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Sedgwick | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | McPherson | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Chase | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Butler | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ICT | Marion | 35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.