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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS

October 14, 201818 counties in Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this freeze warning at Oct 14, 2018, 3:45 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 14, 2018, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 14, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 15, 2018, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS

Counties Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 14, 10:00 PM CDT	SNOW 2	Plevna, KS	TWO INCHES ON GRASS, ONE INCH ON ROAD. ESTIMATED ALONG HIGHWAY 50 BETWEEN PLEVNA AND SYLVIA. RECEIVED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.
Oct 14, 10:08 PM CDT	SNOW 0.3	3 W Wichita Eisenhower, KS
Oct 14, 10:10 PM CDT	SNOW 0.2	6 S Maize, KS
Oct 14, 10:12 PM CDT	SNOW 1.7	Mcpherson, KS	DEPTH ESTIMATE FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO.
Oct 14, 10:19 PM CDT	SNOW 0.3	1 W Wichita Eisenhower, KS	MEASURED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. STILL SNOWING.
Oct 14, 10:45 PM CDT	SNOW 0.6	N Goddard, KS	MEASURED JUST AFTER SNOW ENDED.
Oct 14, 10:49 PM CDT	SNOW 0.6	1 W Wichita Eisenhower, KS	MEASURED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STILL SNOWING.
Oct 15, 7:04 AM CDT	SNOW 1.5	6 Wsw Glendale, 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 14, 2:59 AM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 2:59 AM CDT, 46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.