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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Wichita, KS

May 22, 2019Labette County, Montgomery County, Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2019, 7:06 PM CDT for Labette County, Montgomery County, Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 22, 2019, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2019, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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 22, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 2061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 17.1

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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 22, 6:51 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:51 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 4:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 3:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 3:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 6:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 22, 6:41 PM CDT, 25 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 22, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	43 min
May 22, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	52 min
May 22, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Cowley, Elk	38 min
May 22, 11:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Elk, Woodson	47 min
May 23, 12:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Woodson	37 min
May 23, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Wilson	33 min
May 23, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Labette	22 min
May 23, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette	32 min
May 23, 3:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Neosho	20 min
May 23, 3:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	5 hr
May 23, 6:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette, Neosho	4 hr
May 23, 8:24 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Marion	65 hr
May 23, 8:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	5 days
May 23, 10:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Saline	24 hr
May 23, 10:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Lincoln	13 hr
May 23, 11:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	Butler, Cowley	4 days
May 23, 11:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	4 days
May 23, 3:08 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	7 hr
May 23, 3:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	71 hr
May 23, 3:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	Butler	7 hr
May 23, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Kingman	26 min
May 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Lincoln, Russell and 2 more	72 hr
May 23, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Reno	52 min
May 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey	49 min
May 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	57 min
May 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Saline	30 min
May 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Barton	29 min
May 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	43 min
May 23, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Russell	36 min
May 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Harvey, Marion	31 min
May 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	32 min
May 23, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.