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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Wichita, KS

May 18, 2019Kingman County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2019, 7:27 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: May 18, 2019, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2019, 8:07 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kingman County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 18, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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 May 18, 6:49 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:49 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 4:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 7:18 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 7:20 PM CDT, 7 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
May 18, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Rice	4 hr
May 18, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice	40 min
May 18, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Rice	35 min
May 18, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	61 min
May 18, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	40 min
May 18, 8:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, Rice, Russell	12 hr
May 18, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	29 min
May 18, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	10 min
May 18, 8:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	12 hr
May 18, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion, Saline	62 min
May 18, 9:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	13 hr
May 18, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	31 min
May 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Marion	34 min
May 18, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	51 min
May 18, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chase	32 min
May 18, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	39 min
May 18, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	39 min
May 18, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	47 min
May 18, 11:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	8 days
May 18, 11:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	9 hr
May 19, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	42 min
May 19, 1:08 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	8 hr
May 19, 1:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	8 hr
May 19, 3:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more	60 hr
May 19, 7:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	15 days
May 19, 8:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	49 hr
May 19, 11:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson	5 days
May 19, 2:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	5 days
May 19, 2:51 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	11 days

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.