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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Wichita, KS

May 21, 2019Saline County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2019, 5:03 PM CDT for Saline County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2019, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2019, 5:40 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Saline County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 21, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 21, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 4:30 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 4:36 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 4:41 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 4:49 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 4:55 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 5:00 PM CDT, 3 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 20, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	55 min
May 20, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Montgomery	3 hr
May 20, 7:18 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harvey and 2 more	64 min
May 20, 7:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Chase, Greenwood, Marion, Woodson	16 hr
May 20, 7:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	3 hr
May 20, 10:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	11 hr
May 20, 10:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	5 hr
May 21, 2:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more	8 hr
May 21, 2:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	8 hr
May 21, 4:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley	50 min
May 21, 4:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	6 hr
May 21, 4:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	5 hr
May 21, 5:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Chautauqua, Elk	41 min
May 21, 6:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Montgomery, Wilson	45 min
May 21, 9:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	McPherson, Saline	24 hr
May 21, 11:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 13 more	24 hr
May 21, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harper, Kingman	46 min
May 21, 1:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	30 min
May 21, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	28 min
May 21, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Saline	55 min
May 21, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson, Saline	59 min
May 21, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	McPherson, Marion	47 min
May 21, 3:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Barton, Rice	18 hr
May 21, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	49 min
May 21, 3:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	18 hr
May 21, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Rice	61 min
May 21, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline	25 min
May 21, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	21 min
May 21, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	33 min
May 21, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	30 min
May 21, 4:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	24 min
May 21, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	34 min
May 21, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	26 min
May 21, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	35 min
May 21, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Rice	30 min
May 21, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	McPherson	30 min
May 21, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Sedgwick	29 min
May 21, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	37 min
May 21, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	25 min
May 21, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	24 min
May 21, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	35 min
May 21, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	24 min
May 21, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth	22 min
May 21, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Lincoln	37 min

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.